cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Leapfrogging toward sustainability – dynamics from a developing city perspective
Creators: name: Torrez, Vanessa Copa
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Environmental Science
subject: 160606 Government and Politics of Asia and the Pacific
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160403 Social and Cultural Geography
subject: FOS: Social and economic geography

description: This thesis aims to support rapid sustainable urban development within developing cities through an exploration of leapfrogging processes within neighbourhood blue-green services in Surabaya, Indonesia. An in-depth empirical case study identifies the key enabling factors and actor roles that supported a rapid transformation within Surabaya. In doing so, it introduces a systems perspective and socio-institutional dynamics into a leapfrogging, and re-conceptualises leapfrogging as a strategy to accelerate sustainability transitions. The thesis concludes with a framework to assist other cities in applying the lessons from Surabaya to support their own rapid sustainable development.
A Rotating Charged Black Hole Solution in f(R) Gravity
Creators: name: Larranaga, Alexis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of f(R) theories of gravity, we address the problem of finding a rotating charged black hole solution in the case of constant curvature. The new metric is obtained by solving the field equations and we show that the behavior of it is typical of a rotating charged source. In addition, we analyze the thermodynamics of the new black hole. The results ensures that the thermodynamical properties in f(R) gravities are qualitatively similar to those of standard General Relativity.
description: 9 pages, no figures
Intonation and discourse processing
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Venditti, Jennifer J.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Computer science
Information technology

description: This paper describes intonational cues to discourse structure, and the role that intonation plays in spoken discourse processing. We begin by discussing two main structures in discourse that one must consider when doing research on discourse processing: segmentation and information status. We then review a number of key studies from the phonetics literature which have investigated the intonational marking of these structures. Next, we discuss in detail the psycholinguistic research to date which has examined the role that intonation can play in facilitating or inhibiting the processing of discourse in English and other related languages. We conclude by outlining directions for future research in the area of intonation-discourse processing.
Backchannel-Inviting Cues in Task-Oriented Dialogue
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Gravano, Agustin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science
Information technology
Communication

description: We examine BACKCHANNEL-INVITING CUES — distinct prosodic, acoustic and lexical events in the speaker’s speech that tend to precede a short response produced by the interlocutor to convey continued attention — in the Columbia Games Corpus, a large corpus of task-oriented dialogues. We show that the likelihood of occurrence of a backchannel increases quadratically with the number of cues conjointly displayed by the speaker. Our results are important for improving the coordination of conversational turns in interactive voice-response systems, so that systems can produce backchannels in appropriate places, and so that they can elicit backchannels from users in expected places.
Influence of vector interactions on the hadron-quark/gluon phase transition
Creators: name: Shao, G. Y.
name: Colonna, M.
name: Di Toro, M.
name: Liu, B.
name: Matera, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hadron-quark/gluon phase transition is studied in the two-phase model. As a further study of our previous work, both the isoscalar and isovector vector interactions are included in the Polyakov loop modified Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model (PNJL) for the quark phase. The relevance of the exchange (Fock) terms is stressed and suitably accounted for. The calculation shows that the isovector vector interaction delays the phase transition to higher densities and the range of the mixed phase correspondingly shrinks. Meanwhile the asymmetry parameter of quark matter in the mixed phase decreases with the strengthening of this interaction channel. This leads to some possible observation signals being weakened, although still present. We show that these can be rather general effects of a repulsion in the quark phase due to the symmetry energy. This is also confirmed by a simpler calculation with the MIT--Bag model. However, the asymmetry parameter of quark matter is slightly enhanced with the inclusion of the isoscalar vector interaction, but the phase transition will be moved to higher densities. The largest uncertainty on the phase transition lies in the undetermined coupling constants of the vector interactions. In this respect new data on the mixed phase obtained from Heavy Ion Collisions at Intermediate Energies appear very important.
description: submitted to Phys. Rev. D
WASP-78b and WASP-79b: Two highly-bloated hot Jupiter-mass exoplanets orbiting F-type stars in Eridanus
Creators: name: Smalley, B.
name: Anderson, D. R.
name: Collier-Cameron, A.
name: Doyle, A. P.
name: Fumel, A.
name: Gillon, M.
name: Hellier, C.
name: Jehin, E.
name: Lendl, M.
name: Maxted, P. F. L.
name: Pepe, F.
name: Pollacco, D.
name: Queloz, D.
name: Segransan, D.
name: Smith, A. M. S.
name: Southworth, J.
name: Triaud, A. H. M. J.
name: Udry, S.
name: West, R. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of WASP-78b and WASP-79b, two highly-bloated Jupiter-mass exoplanets orbiting F-type host stars. WASP-78b orbits its V=12.0 host star (TYC 5889-271-1) every 2.175 days and WASP-79b orbits its V=10.1 host star (CD-30 1812) every 3.662 days. Planetary parameters have been determined using a simultaneous fit to WASP and TRAPPIST transit photometry and CORALIE radial-velocity measurements. For WASP-78b a planetary mass of 0.89 +/- 0.08 M_Jup and a radius of 1.70 +/- 0.11 R_Jup is found. The planetary equilibrium temperature of T_P = 2350 +/- 80 K for WASP-78b makes it one of the hottest of the currently known exoplanets. WASP-79b its found to have a planetary mass of 0.90 +/- 0.08 M_Jup, but with a somewhat uncertain radius due to lack of sufficient TRAPPIST photometry. The planetary radius is at least 1.70 +/- 0.11 R_Jup, but could be as large as 2.09 +/- 0.14 R_Jup, which would make WASP-79b the largest known exoplanet.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
CLASH: Discovery of a Bright z~6.2 Dwarf Galaxy Quadruply Lensed by MACS J0329.6-0211
Creators: name: Zitrin, A.
name: Moustakas, J.
name: Bradley, L.
name: Coe, D.
name: Moustakas, L. A.
name: Postman, M.
name: Shu, X.
name: Zheng, W.
name: Benítez, N.
name: Bouwens, R.
name: Broadhurst, T.
name: Ford, H.
name: Host, O.
name: Jouvel, S.
name: Koekemoer, A.
name: Meneghetti, M.
name: Rosati, P.
name: Donahue, M.
name: Grillo, C.
name: Kelson, D.
name: Lemze, D.
name: Medezinski, E.
name: Molino, A.
name: Nonino, M.
name: Ogaz, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a z_{phot}=6.18^{+0.05}_{-0.07} (95% confidence level) dwarf galaxy, lensed into four images by the galaxy cluster MACS J0329.6-0211 (z_{l}=0.45). The galaxy is observed as a high-redshift dropout in HST/ACS/WFC3 CLASH and Spitzer/IRAC imaging. Its redshift is securely determined due to a clear detection of the Lyman-break in the 18-band photometry, making this galaxy one of the highest-redshift multiply-lensed objects known to date with an observed magnitude of F125W=24.00\pm0.04 AB mag for its highest-magnified image. We also present the first strong-lensing analysis of this cluster uncovering 15 additional multiply-imaged candidates of five lower-redshift sources spanning the range z_{s}~2-4. The mass model independently supports the high photometric redshift and reveals magnifications of 11.6^{+8.9}_{-4.1}, 17.6^{+6.2}_{-3.9}, 3.9^{+3.0}_{-1.7}, and 3.7^{+1.3}_{-0.2}, respectively, for the four images of the high-redshift galaxy. With this we construct a source image with a physical resolution of ~200 pc when the universe was ~0.9 Gyr old, where the z~6.2 galaxy occupies a source-plane area of approximately 2.2 kpc^{2}. Modeling the observed spectral energy distribution using population synthesis models, we find a demagnified stellar mass of ~10^{9} {M}_{sun}, subsolar metallicity (Z/Z_{sun}~0.5), low dust content (A_{V}~0.1 mag), a demagnified star formation rate (SFR) of ~3.2 {M}_{sun} yr^{-1}, and a specific SFR of ~3.4 Gyr^{-1}, all consistent with the properties of local dwarf galaxies.
description: 6 pages, 1 table, 4 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ Letters; v3: minor changes including shortened text and figures
Prediction of upcoming Swedish prosodic boundaries by Swedish and American listeners
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Carlson, Rolf
name: Swerts, Marc
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2004
Subjects: Computer science
Information technology

description: e describe results of a study of perceptually based predictions of upcoming prosodic breaks in spontaneous Swedish speech materials by native speakers of Swedish and of standard American English. The question addressed here is the extent to which listeners are able, on the basis of acoustic and prosodic features, to predict the occurrence of upcoming boundaries, and if so, whether they are able to distinguish different degrees of boundary strength. An experiment was conducted in which spontaneous utterance fragments (both long and short versions) were presented to listeners, who were instructed to guess whether or not the fragments were followed by a prosodic break, and if so, what the strength of the break was, where boundary presence and strength had been independently labeled. Results revealed that both listening groups were indeed able to predict whether or not a boundary (of a particular strength) followed the fragment, suggesting that prosodic rather than lexico-grammatical information was being used as a primary cue.
Black Holes with Primary Hair in gauged N=8 Supergravity
Creators: name: Anabalon, Andres
name: Canfora, Fabrizio
name: Giacomini, Alex
name: Oliva, Julio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we analyze the static solutions for the $U(1)^{4}$ consistent truncation of the maximally supersymmetric gauged supergravity in four dimensions. Using a new parametrization of the known solutions it is shown that for fixed charges there exist three possible black hole configurations according to the pattern of symmetry breaking of the (scalars sector of the) Lagrangian. Namely a black hole without scalar fields, a black hole with a primary hair and a black hole with a secondary hair respectively. This is the first, exact, example of a black hole with a primary scalar hair, where both the black hole and the scalar fields are regular on and outside the horizon. The configurations with secondary and primary hair can be interpreted as a spontaneous symmetry breaking of discrete permutation and reflection symmetries of the action. It is shown that there exist a triple point in the thermodynamic phase space where the three solution coexist. The corresponding phase transitions are discussed and the free energies are written explicitly as function of the thermodynamic coordinates in the uncharged case. In the charged case the free energies of the primary hair and the hairless black hole are also given as functions of the thermodynamic coordinates.
description: 9 pages, no figures
Seeing through NGOs : poverty, visuality and the first and third worlds
Creators: name: Stryker, Alyssa
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Poverty alleviation, both at home and abroad, is a major preoccupation of socially aware and ethically motivated individuals in Canada. Examining the work of Canadian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that work explicitly towards this goal, I explore the ways that discourses surrounding poverty alleviation are influenced by the dominant imaginative geographies of separate First and Third Worlds. I examine recent public relations material distributed by Canadian-based NGOs, both those that target Third World poverty (working in the field of “development”) and those that focus on domestic poverty. I explore the dominant visualities employed by these organizations when they represent poverty in their fundraising and publicity material, and investigate the way that these representations reflect (and occasionally challenge) prevailing understandings of the First and Third Worlds as fundamentally separate and internally coherent geographies. Judith Butler (2004) theorizes the United States’ experience of suffering and vulnerability on September 11, 2001 as a moment that offered a clear choice between two possible responses: “[D]o we now seek to restore [First World complacency] as a way of healing from this wound? Or do we allow the challenge to First World complacency to stand and begin to build a different politics on this basis?” (p. 7-8) My thesis will explore a parallel question in the context of a different kind of suffering and vulnerability: that that arises from poverty (experienced differently – but experienced nonetheless) in nations of the First World as well as nations of the Third.
The psychological value of nature: Understanding the benefits of nature interaction in different populations
Creators: name: Harrison, Hannah S.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Literature Review Background: Nature-based interventions (NBIs) promote nature interaction and demonstrate potential to address inequalities experienced by socio-economically deprived communities. This narrative review aims to identify and evaluate the benefits of NBIs in socio-economically deprived communities. Method: A systematic literature search was conducted on 5th February 2021 and repeated on 30th August 2022. In total, 3852 records were identified, and 18 experimental studies met the inclusion criteria and were included in this review. Results: Interventions included therapeutic horticulture, care farming, green exercise and wilderness arts and craft. Key benefits were observed for cost savings, diet diversity, food security, anthropometric outcomes, mental health outcomes, nature visits, physical activity, and physical health. Conclusions: Results demonstrate clear benefits of NBIs on economic, environmental, health and social outcomes. Further research including qualitative analyses, more stringent experimental designs and use of standardised outcome measures is recommended. Empirical Study Background: Interaction with trees and the urban forest can play a valuable role in promoting wellbeing benefits. The current study evaluated the mental wellbeing and nature connection benefits of MyTree, a campus-based nature intervention for undergraduate students. Method: A quasi-experimental, sequential explanatory mixed methods design was used. Quantitative survey data was evaluated to draw comparisons between undergraduate students who received the intervention (n=32) and a control group who did not (n=13). Thematic analysis of qualitative interviews (n=14) was conducted to explore participants’ experiences of MyTree. Results: The intervention group demonstrated statistically significant improvements in depression outcomes post-intervention compared to the control group. The thematic analysis identified four major themes: Reciprocal relationships; A chance to take five; Out of the norm; and Beyond the beauty. Conclusions: This study identified potential mood-related benefits associated with MyTree and co-benefits associated with nature relationships, environmental stewardship, and experiential learning. Further research with larger, more representative samples is recommended.
Characterisation of the effects of intrinsically disordered protein (IDP)-solvent and IDP-lipid interactions in aqueous solution and lipid monolayers
Creators: name: Widder, Katharina
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 540

description: In dieser Arbeit wurde das Aggregationsverhalten zweier verschiedener Arten intrinsisch unstrukturierter Proteine untersucht. Zum einen wurde der Temperatur-abhängige inverse Phasenübergang von thermoresponsiven Peptid-Polymeren als Funktion der Aminosäuresequenz mit Elektronenspinresonanz- Spektroskopie untersucht. Die Erkenntnisse dieses Kapitels unterstützen die präzise Einstellung gewünschter biophysikalischer Eigenschaften für vorgesehene Anwendungen in Biotechnologie und Medizin. Zum anderen erfolgte die systematische Untersuchung der Wechselwirkung des basischen Myelinproteins (MBP) mit den einzelnen Lipiden der zytoplastischen Lipidschicht des Myelins. Diese zeigte die Bedeutung des Zusammenwirkens der Lipide für die physiologische Rolle des MBPs, die Kompaktheit der Myelinscheide sicherzustellen. Dies erlaubt Rückschlüsse für die Aufklärung pathologischer Prozesse im Zusammenhang mit neurodegenerativen Erkrankungen.
description: Two types of intrinsically disordered proteins were investigated in this thesis to scrutinise their aggregation behaviour. First, the temperature-driven inverse phase transition of thermoresponsive peptide polymers was studied as a function of the amino acid sequence with electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy. The findings of this chapter will help to precisely tune the biophysical properties of thermoresponsive peptide polymers for the desired applications in biotechnology and medicine. Second, the systematic investigation of the interaction of myelin basic protein (MBP) with the single lipids of the cytoplasmic side of the myelin sheath revealed the importance of the synergy of the lipids to ensure MBP's physiologic role for the compaction of the myelin sheath and may further the understanding of pathological processes related to neurodegenerative diseases.4207 intrinsisch unstrukturierte Proteine; thermoresponsive Peptid-Polymere; inverser Phasenübergang; Elektronenspinresonanz-Spektroskopie; basisches Myelinprotein; Protein-Lipid-Wechselwirkung; Lipid-Monoschichten; Sphingomyelin
Jewish Emigration from Russia and the Soviet Union
Creators: name: (:Unav)
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Slavs
Jews
International relations

description: This presentation addresses Soviet policy on emigration as it relates to Russian Jews. The Jewish people are described as an "ever-migrating" people, and the largest migration of Jews in recent history is that of Russian Jews from Imperialist Russia and Soviet Russia to Palestine and what later became the state of Israel. The reasons for this migration are outlined, including suppression of Jewish religion, culture, language, and Zionism.
Impact of treated wastewater irrigation on soil structure and soil water dynamics
Creators: name: Leuther, Frederic
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 630

description: Gereinigtes Abwasser, eine in der Landwirtschaft häufig verwendete Wasserressource, enthält Salze und organisches Material, die Bodenstruktur, hydraulische Eigenschaften und Benetzbarkeit des Bodens beeinflussen können. Mittels Röntgen-CT wurden Veränderungen im Porennetzwerk eines lehmigen Sandes und eines sandig tonigen Lehms untersucht, die seit mehr als sieben Jahren mit sekundär behandeltem Abwasser bewässert werden. Porosität, Porengrößenverteilung und Konnektivität wurden ermittelt und Veränderungen von Textur, physiko-chemischen Parametern und hydraulischen Eigenschaften gegenübergestellt. Die langzeitige Bewässerung unterstützte die Entwicklung eines verbundenen Porennetzwerkes, jedoch auf Kosten von Tonverlust, verminderter Wasserretention und ungesättigter hydraulischer Leitfähigkeit. Darüber hinaus wurde die Infiltration von Wasser für den lehmigen Sand bei reduziertem Wassergehalt aufgrund der induzierten Benetzungshemmung sehr instabil. Insgesamt zeigte sich, dass der sandig tonige Lehm deutlich resistenter gegen Veränderungen durch Abwasserbewässerung ist als der lehmige Sand.
description: Treated wastewater (TWW), a commonly used water resource in agriculture, often contains salts and organic materials which may affect soil structure, hydraulic properties, and soil wettability. In this study, we used X-ray CT to determine changes in the pore network of a loamy sand and a sandy clay loam irrigated with secondary treated wastewater for more than seven years. A detailed analysis of the pore network larger 19 µm and 60 µm in terms of porosity, pore size distribution, and connectivity was done and contrasted with changes in textural composition, soil physicochemical parameters, and hydraulic properties. In this study it was shown that irrigation supports the development of a connected macro-pore network, but for the expense of clay loss, reduced water retention, and diminished unsaturated hydraulic conductivity. Furthermore, we demonstrate that water infiltration can become highly instable for a loamy sand at reduced water contents due to induced water repellency. Overall, it is shown that a sandy clay loam is much more resistant to soil alteration by TWW irrigation than loamy sand.
The Syracusans honour King Gelon, son of Hieron II
Creators: name: Prag, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sicily
subject: epigraphy
subject: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300138808
subject: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462492

description: TEI EpiDoc record
Subsystem dynamics under random Hamiltonian evolution
Creators: name: Vinayak
name: Znidaric, Marko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study time evolution of a subsystem's density matrix under unitary evolution, generated by a sufficiently complex, say quantum chaotic, Hamiltonian, modeled by a random matrix. We exactly calculate all coherences, purity and fluctuations. We show that the reduced density matrix can be described in terms of a noncentral correlated Wishart ensemble for which we are able to perform analytical calculations of the eigenvalue density. Our description accounts for a transition from an arbitrary initial state towards a random state at large times, enabling us to determine the convergence time after which random states are reached. We identify and describe a number of other interesting features, like a series of collisions between the largest eigenvalue and the bulk, accompanied by a phase transition in its distribution function.
description: 16 pages, 8 figures; v3: slightly re-structured and an additional appendix
Solar Neutrino Matter Effects Redux
Creators: name: Balantekin, A. B.
name: Malkus, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Following recent low-threshold analysis of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory and asymmetry measurements of the BOREXINO Collaboration of the solar neutrino flux, we revisit the analysis of the matter effects in the Sun. We show that solar neutrino data constrains the mixing angle $θ_{13}$ poorly and that subdominant Standard Model effects can mimic the effects of the physics beyond the Standard Model.
description: 12 pages of LATEX, 8 figures
Functional fiction to collective action
Creators: name: Beattie, H
name: Brown, Daniel
name: Kindon, Sara
Publisher: name: Open Access Victoria University of Wellington | Te Herenga Waka
Year: 2021
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper discusses the methodology and results of the Maslow’s Palace workshops project, which engages with current debates surrounding the democratisation of digital urban design technology and stakeholder decision making, through the implementation of a speculative oriented approach to serious gaming. The research explores how serious games might be used to help marginalised communities consider past, future and present community experiences, reconcile dissimilar assumptions, generate social capital building and design responses and prime participants for further long term design engagement processes. Empirical material for this research was gathered from a range of case study workshops prepared with three landfill-based communities and external partners throughout 2017. Results show the approach helped participants develop shared norms, values and understandings of sensitive topics and develop ideas for future action through “collective tinkering”.
Charakterisierung der Calmodulin/bMunc13-2-Interaktion mit massenspektrometrischen Methoden
Creators: name: Piotrowski, Christine
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 572

description: Munc13-Proteine sind essentiell für die synaptische Signalweiterleitung und werden durch Diacylglycerol, Calcium oder das calciumbindende Protein Calmodulin (CaM), ein ubiquitäres Protein mit über 300 Interaktionspartnern, reguliert. CaM erkennt hierbei spezifische Bindemotive in Munc13. Diese Arbeit fokussiert sich auf die Interaktion von CaM und der im Gehirn lokalisierten Munc13-Isoform bMunc13-2. Die zentrale Methode zur Aufklärung des CaM/bMunc13-2-Komplexes war die chemische Vernetzung mit anschließender massenspektrometrischer Analyse zur Ableitung von Distanzbeschränkungen, welche der bioinformatischen Modellierung der Proteininteraktion dienten. Ebenso erfolgten weitere massenspektrometrische und biochemische Untersuchungen zur Aufklärung der CaM/bMunc13-2-Interaktion. Die Ergebnisse zeigten ein verändertes CaM-Bindemotiv in bMunc13-2 im Vergleich zu den Isoformen Munc13-1, ubMunc13-2 und Munc13-3, welches keinem bisher bekannten CaM-Bindemotiv zugeordnet werden konnte. Die Interaktion von CaM und bMunc13-2 scheint somit einzigartig in der Munc13-Familie zu sein und ein neues CaM-Bindemotiv aufzuweisen.
description: Munc13 proteins are essential for synaptic signal transmission. They are regulated by diacylglycerol, calcium or calmodulin (CaM), a ubiquitous calcium-binding protein interacting with more than 300 proteins. The binding of CaM occurs at specific CaM binding motifs within the Munc13 proteins. This work focusses on the interaction between CaM and the brain located isoform bMunc13-2, which was mainly analyzed by chemical cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry to obtain distance information for computational modelling. Besides, biochemical and mass spectrometric methods were applied to gain comparative information on the CaM/bMunc13-2 interaction. The results showed that bMunc13-2 comprises a so far unknown CaM binding motif which differs exhaustively from the remaining isoforms Munc13-1, ubMunc13-2 und Munc13-3. Therefore, the interaction between CaM and bMunc13-2 seems to be unique within the Munc13 family and based on a new CaM binding motif.
NUV Excess in Slowly Accreting T Tauri Stars: Limits Imposed by Chromospheric Emission
Creators: name: Ingleby, Laura
name: Calvet, Nuria
name: Bergin, Edwin
name: Herczeg, Gregory
name: Brown, Alexander
name: Alexander, Richard
name: Edwards, Suzan
name: Espaillat, Catherine
name: France, Kevin
name: Gregory, Scott G.
name: Hillenbrand, Lynne
name: Roueff, Evelyne
name: Valenti, Jeff
name: Walter, Frederick
name: Johns-Krull, Christopher
name: Brown, Joanna
name: Linsky, Jeffrey
name: McClure, Melissa
name: Ardila, David
name: Abgrall, Herve
name: Bethell, Thomas
name: Hussain, Gaitee
name: Yang, Hao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Young stars surrounded by disks with very low mass accretion rates are likely in the final stages of inner disk evolution and therefore particularly interesting to study. We present ultraviolet (UV) observations of the ~5-9 Myr old stars RECX-1 and RECX-11, obtained with the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) and Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), as well as optical and near infrared spectroscopic observations. The two stars have similar levels of near UV emission, although spectroscopic evidence indicates that RECX-11 is accreting and RECX-1 is not. The line profiles of Halpha and He I 10830 in RECX-11 show both broad and narrow redshifted absorption components that vary with time, revealing the complexity of the accretion flows. We show that accretion indicators commonly used to measure mass accretion rates, e.g. U band excess luminosity or the Ca II triplet line luminosity are unreliable for low accretors, at least in the middle K spectral range. Using RECX-1 as a template for the intrinsic level of photospheric and chromospheric emission, we determine an upper limit of 3 x 10^-10 solar masses/ year for RECX-11. At this low accretion rate, recent photoevaporation models predict that an inner hole should have developed in the disk. However, the spectral energy distribution of RECX-11 shows fluxes comparable to the median of Taurus in the near infrared, indicating that substantial dust remains. Fluorescent H_2 emission lines formed in the innermost disk are observed in RECX-11, showing that gas is present in the inner disk, along with the dust.
description: 30 pages, 9 figures, Accepted to ApJ
Deep waters: How ignoring uncertainty in hydrological modelling increases water security risk [Policy Brief]
Creators: name: Glenday, Julia
name: Rebelo, Alanna J.
name: Holden, Petra
name: Metho, Peni
name: Tanner, Jane Louise
name: Gwapedza, David
name: Gokool, Shaeden
name: Jumbi, Faith
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 410402
subject: Environmental assessment and monitoring
classificationCode: 410404
subject: Environmental management
classificationCode: 410406
subject: Natural resource management
classificationCode: 370703
subject: Groundwater hydrology
classificationCode: 370704
subject: Surface water hydrology
classificationCode: 370702
subject: Ecohydrology
classificationCode: 370705
subject: Urban hydrology
classificationCode: 370799
subject: Hydrology not elsewhere classified

description: A policy brief about uncertainty in hydrological modelling and the need for uncertainty assessment practices to be mainstreamed in the water sector in South Africa. It is not yet common practice in South Africa for hydrological modelling studies that are conducted to inform management decisions to provide a quantitative assessment of the uncertainty in the model outputs. Model output uncertainty stems from uncertainties in data, model structure, and model parameters. Research studies have demonstrated that, even when there is streamflow data available with which to calibrate a model, there can still be very high levels of uncertainty in model outputs. This is particularly the case when models are extended to predict hydrological outcomes for conditions different to those under which they were calibrated: different climate conditions, different land cover, different water management interventions. Decision making based on modelling output without any indication of uncertainty can result in mismanagement with negative consequences. This brief makes the case for collaborative standardisation of uncertainty analysis approaches in the sector with investment in capacity, time, tool development, and data accessibility.The development of this policy brief was funded by the Water Research Commission (WRC) of South Africa under project C2022/2023-00967: Modelling uncertainty and reliability for water resource assessment in South Africa.
Energy Secure Architecture: A Wish List
Creators: name: Sethumadhavan, Simha
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2013
Subjects: Computer science

description: Energy optimizations are being aggressively pursued today. Can these optimizations open up security vulnerabilities? In this invited talk at the Energy Secure System Architectures Workshop (run by Pradip Bose from IBM Watson research center) I discussed security implications of energy optimizations, capabilities of attackers, ease of exploitation, and payoff to the attacker. I first presented a mini tutorial on security for computer architects, and a personal research wish list for this emerging topic.
An Unsupervised Approach to Biography Production using Wikipedia
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Biadsy, Fadi
name: Filatova, Elena
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Computer science
Information technology

description: We describe an unsupervised approach to multi-document sentence-extraction based summarization for the task of producing biographies. We utilize Wikipedia to automatically construct a corpus of biographical sentences and TDT4 to construct a corpus of non-biographical sentences. We build a biographical-sentence classiﬁer from these  corpora and an SVM regression model for sentence ordering from the Wikipedia corpus. We evaluate our work on the DUC2004 evaluation data and with human judges. Overall, our system signiﬁcantly outperforms all systems that participated in DUC2004, according to the ROUGE-L metric, and is preferred by human subjects.
Using a gendered lens to explore the impact and experiences of stalking and harassment in the workplace
Creators: name: Contardi, Sophie M.
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Literature Review Workplace sexual harassment has detrimental impacts for individual employees and negative organisational outcomes. Masculine culture and high levels of sexual harassment are pervasive within the police force. This narrative review appraises and synthesises the quantitative research exploring the adverse impacts of workplace sexual harassment for male and female police employees. The review identified 854 studies and 14 met the eligibility criteria for inclusion. A narrative synthesis identified different psychological (e.g., work-related stress) and job-related (e.g., absenteeism) impacts of workplace sexual harassment for police employees. The findings highlight the negative impact workplace sexual harassment has for police employees. The need for social bonds and additional support, psychological safety and wider organisational changes are outlined. This includes a cultural change that promotes gender equality and diminished power imbalances. Limitations, implications, and future research areas are discussed.
 Empirical Research Study Stalking is a common experience for professionals including psychologists, with a high prevalence particularly for females. Victims experience psychological, professional, and physical impacts. Various coping strategies are adopted to manage the fear, and organisational responses are variable. The study aims to explore UK female psychologists’ experiences of stalking, harassing and threatening behaviours in the workplace, and their organisation’s response to these experiences. Individual semi-structured interviews were used to collect participant (n=15) experiences. Thematic analysis was used to analyse the interview data and identify salient themes. Three main themes were identified from female psychologists’ experiences of stalking, harassing and threatening behaviours in the workplace including ‘personal and professional cost’, ‘sense-making and compassion’ and ‘organisational responses’. Findings were discussed in relation to the literature, feminist dominance theory and attachment theory. Support is recommended for an organisation that promotes psychological safety, adherence to the unwritten psychological contract for psychology employees and consideration of the systemic dominance and subordination of women in the workplace. Recommendations for training to increase organisational awareness of the risks to avoid blame and minimisation of these experiences were made.
Open Journal System (OJS) & Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
Creators: name: Lubis, Azhar Aziz
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: open journal system
digital object identifier
doi
ojs 2
manajemen ojs

description: Materi ini dipaparkan pada kegiatan Workshop Pendampingan Manajemen Pengelolaan Applied Industrial Engineering Journal yang diselenggarakan oleh Fakultas Teknik Universitas Dian Nuswantoro Semarang bekerjasama dengan Relawan Jurnal Indonesia.
Funerary inscription for Xenokritos son of Hephaistokles, of Massalia
Creators: name: Prag, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sicily
subject: epigraphy
subject: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300138808
subject: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462492

description: TEI EpiDoc record
A Report on Propagative Influence: An Influence measure for directed and undirected networks
Creators: name: Zaamout, Khobaib
Publisher: name: Science
Year: 2018
Subjects: Social Network
Influence Propagation
Node Ranking

description: In this report, we present a new influence measure, namely Propagative Influence - PI. PI measure defines influence of a node in terms of its relationships. It suggests that a node's influence is a product of the interactions of nodes and is a state given to the node by the recognition and endorsements of others. We show that using PI will identify all influential nodes in a network in an effective and timely manner. The theory of this measure is very relevant and easily understood. We propose two variations of this measure, Static Propagative Influence - SPI and Dynamic Propagative Influence - DPI. Both variations use the same underlying algorithm but differ in influence propagation values. In this work, the abilities and effectiveness of our proposed measure is demonstrated through a series of examples on synthetic datasets which reflect real-world situations.
Algebraic methods for the study of multistationarity in mass-action networks
Creators: name: Iosif, Alexandru
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Angewandte Mathematik
subject: 519

description: The subject of this thesis is Algebraic Systems Biology with focus on detecting multistationarity in mass-action networks. The main contributions of this thesis are divided into three parts. First, in Chapter 2 we develop the theory of multistationarity for mass-action networks with toric positive steady states and in Chapter 3 we apply this theory to sequential and distributive phosphorylation networks. Second, in Chapter 4 we prove that dynamical systems with the isolation property have toric positive steady states. Finally, in Chapter 5 we introduce Sturm discriminants.
description: Das Thema dieser Dissertation ist Algebraische Systembiologie mit dem Fokus auf die Erkennung von Multistationarit at in Massenwirkungsnetzwerken. Die Hauptbeitr age dieser Arbeit sind in drei Teile gegliedert. Zuerst entwickeln wir in Kapitel 2 die Theorie der Multistationarit at f ur Massenwirkungsnetzwerke mit torische positive station aren Zust anden, und in Kapitel 3 wenden wir diese Theorie auf sequentielle und distributive Phosphorylierungsnetzwerke an. Zweitens beweisen wir in Kapitel 4, dass dynamische Systeme mit der Isolationseigenschaft torische positive station aren Zust ande haben. Schlie lich f uhren wir in Kapitel 5 Sturm Diskriminanten ein.
Learning Anchor Verbs for Biological Interaction Patterns from Published Text Articles
Creators: name: Hatzivassiloglou, Vasileios
name: Weng, Wubin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2002
Subjects: Information technology
Computer science

description: Much of knowledge modeling in the molecular biology domain involves interactions between proteins, genes, various forms of RNA, small molecules, etc. Interactions between these substances are typically extracted and codified manually, increasing the cost and time for modeling and substantially limiting the coverage of the resulting knowledge base. In this paper, we describe an automatic system that learns from text interaction verbs; these verbs can then form the core of automatically retrieved patterns which model classes of biological interactions. We investigate text features relating verbs with genes and proteins, and apply statistical tests and a logistic regression statistical model to determine whether a given verb belongs to the class of interaction verbs. Our system, AVAD, achieves over 87% precision and 82% recall when tested on an 11 million word corpus of journal articles. In addition, we compare the automatically obtained results with a manually constructed database of interaction verbs and show that the automatic approach can significantly enrich the manual list by detecting rarer interaction verbs that were omitted from the database.
The Identification of Metacompetence in Cognitive Behavioural Therapists
Creators: name: Anderson, Lisa
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Literature Review This literature review sought to explore how CBT therapists develop their practice with experience. A narrative synthesis of relevant journal articles indicated a weight towards adherence to disorder-specific protocols, with the suggestion that drift results in poor treatment outcomes. However, in practice most practitioners do not follow disorder-specific protocols, as they do not address the complexities of the clients they work with. The findings suggest that as therapists become more experienced, they tend to take a more formulation-based approach.
 Service Evaluation This study evaluated participants views on the impact of a five-day CBT course on their current working practice. Measures were taken at pre, post and follow-up. The feedback was generally positive with significant increases reported in knowledge and understanding. Ongoing supervision and support were highlighted as important in embedding learning.
 Research Report Metacompetencies are vaguely defined in the literature thus making them difficult to measure. This study attempted to investigate and specify what metacompetence looks like and how it develops in recently qualified and experienced CBT therapists. Template Analysis was used to explore the therapists justifications for a formulation and treatment plan for a complex client outlined in a vignette. Both groups reported a departure from disorder-specific protocols despite references to evidence-based practice. Differences in confidence impacting working with complexity was also highlighted. Results were discussed with regards to implications for training and supervision.
Automatic Summarization of Broadcast News using Structural Features
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Maskey, Sameer Raj
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Computer science
Information technology

description: We present a method for summarizing broadcast news that is not affected by word errors in an automatic speech recognition transcription, using information about the structure of the news program. We construct a directed graphical model to represent the probability distribution and dependencies among the structural features which we train by finding the values of parameters of the conditional probability tables. We then rank segments of the test set and extract the highest ranked ones as a summary. We present the procedure and preliminary test results.
High Frequency Word Entrainment in Spoken Dialogue
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Nenkova, Ani
name: Gravano, Agustin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computer science
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: Information technology

description: Cognitive theories of dialogue hold that entrainment, the automatic alignment between dialogue partners at many levels of linguistic representation, is key to facilitating both production and comprehension in dialogue. In this paper we examine novel types of entrainment in two corpora —Switchboard and the Columbia Games corpus. We examine entrainment in use of high-frequency words (the most common words in the corpus), and its association with dialogue naturalness and ﬂow, as well as with task success. Our results show that such entrainment is predictive of the perceived naturalness of dialogues and is significantly correlated with task success; in overall interaction ﬂow, higher degrees of entrainment are associated with more overlaps and fewer interruptions.
Does the Federal Work-Study Program Really Work—and for Whom?
Creators: name: Scott-Clayton, Judith E.
name: Zhou, Yang
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2017
Subjects: College students
College students--Finance, Personal
Student financial aid administration
Student aid
Universities and colleges--Finance

description: In this brief, the authors discuss current research regarding both the effectiveness of the Federal Work-Study (FWS) program and its equity in terms of the distribution of funds. The authors highlight findings from recent CAPSEE research which suggests that the program does positively influence students’ college attainment and post-college outcomes. The evidence also suggests that these impacts may be greatest for low-income students and students at public institutions. The authors then discuss how the current process for allocating FWS funds to institutions leaves these very students—those who are most likely to benefit—with the least access to the program. The authors conclude with implications for policy, including potential channels that might be used to maximize the effectiveness of the program.
Speculation and price volatility : the case of rice in United States
Creators: name: Doroudian, Ali
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In response to the rampant and high volatility in rice prices relative to other grains over the past few decades and calls by governments for tighter control and regulation on futures trading to limit speculation and curtail volatility, this work evaluates the performance of the rice futures market in United State in terms of its impact on the nation’s rice cash price volatility. This study presents a refined form of Milton Friedman’s original theory (1953) that speculation leads to less volatility unless it is carried out by irrational speculators. It will test this theory empirically using time series econometrics. Generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) is used to measure volatility of the price of rice. Vector autoregressive (VAR) models are deployed to measure the impact of trading activity on cash price volatility through Granger Causality test, forecast error variance decomposition (FEVD), and impulse response (IR) methods. Results show that rice cash price volatility after the introduction of the rice futures market on the Chicago Board of Trade is lowered by 51%. The Granger Causality test also indicates that sudden changes in the futures market trading activity (proxy for the presence of irrational speculators) cause higher volatility in the cash market. The FEVD, and IR methods indicate that a sudden rise in non-commercial open interest has a larger impact on cash price volatility than changes in trading volume.