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Multicultural Education of the Younger Generation: Assessment of the Moral and Volitional Qualities Formation of an Individual (Based on the Sample of the Republic Of Tuva)
Creators: name: Bailak Salchak, Lydia Sagalakova, Aida Oorzhak, Aziyana Oorzhak, Pavel Tapyshpan, Elena Irgit, Sayzana Mongush
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ethnic tolerance, ethnocultural competence, Moral-volitional qualities, Multicultural education, National identity

description: Multicultural education is one of the most relevant issues of modern education. The research focuses on the formation of multicultural competence in inhabitants of the Tuva Republic (Russian Federation). The analysis of research on multicultural competence, and related educational problems, shows that the socially important preschool period, basic for the formation of an individual, is studied insufficiently. The paper presents the results of studies of 5- and 6-year-old Tuvan children carried out in four pre-school educational institutions. The research results show a low or average level of understanding and perception of moral and volitional qualities of an individual in children and statistically significant correlations of the high level of understanding by girls (0.764) and children aged by 6 years old (0.699), as well as correlations of the low level of understanding by boys (0.786). The practical significance of the study lies in the applicability of its results to change the way children learn in pre-school institutions, change the emphasis on pedagogical training and teachers’ work with families, and introduce elements of multicultural training (foreign language competencies) and knowledge about different cultures to preschools.
A Commitment Reasoning Support System
Creators: name: Lau, Lik Alaric
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The concept of commitment has recently been adopted by researchers to model cooperative organizational activities. A commitment is an agreement by an agent to a requester to carry out a requested action. A Commitment Reasoning Support System (CRSS) is proposed in an attempt to support the reasoning process in deciding whether or not to make a commitment. An implementation of CRSS is constructed on the NeXT Computer System. An empirical study was conducted on the CRSS implementation. The findings show that the system is especially useful for commitment requests with high complexity and/or with important implications. The study also provides important conceptual insights in commitment reasoning for future research.
A Short Review of Relativistic Iron Lines from Stellar-Mass Black Holes
Creators: name: Miller, J. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this contribution, I briefly review recent progress in detecting and measuring the properties of relativistic iron lines observed in stellar-mass black hole systems, and the aspects of these lines that are most relevant to studies of similar lines in Seyfert-1 AGN. In particular, the lines observed in stellar-mass black holes are not complicated by complex low-energy absorption or partial-covering of the central engine, and strong lines are largely independent of the model used to fit the underlying broad-band continuum flux. Indeed, relativistic iron lines are the most robust diagnostic of black hole spin that is presently available to observers, with specific advantages over the systematics-plagued disk continuum. If accretion onto stellar-mass black holes simply scales with mass, then the widespread nature of lines in stellar-mass black holes may indicate that lines should be common in Seyfert-1 AGN, though perhaps harder to detect.
description: To appear in Astron. Nachr. in the proceedings of the XMM-Newton workshop "Variable and Broad Iron Lines Around Black Holes", eds. A. C. Fabian and N. Schartel, 2006, Madrid, Spain
Η διοικητική εκτέλεση υπό του καθεστώς του ΚΕΔΕ και του Ν. 4174/2013 (ΚΦΔ)
Creators: name: Αλεξόπουλος, Αχιλλεύς Παναγιώτη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: διοικητική εκτέλεση
νόμιμος τίτλος
ταμειακή βεβαίωση
administrative execution
legal title
affirmation of distribution of public debts

description: Η παρούσα εργασία στοχεύει σε μια πλήρη ανάλυση των διαδικαστικών βημάτων της διοικητικής εκτέλεσης. Εν προκειμένω, στον πρώτο κεφάλαιο δίδονται οι ορισμοί της διοικητικής εκτέλεσης και των δημόσιων εσόδων. Εν συνεχεία, επιχειρείται η καταγραφή των αρχικών σταδίων της εκτελεστικής διαδικασίας μ' έμφαση στα δικονομικά και θεωρητικά ζητήματα της συγκρότησης του νόμιμου τίτλου και της ατομικής ειδοποίησης. Παράλληλα, αναλύονται τα πρόστιμα και οι κυρώσεις που επιβάλλει ο ΚΕΔΕ αλλά και η συμβατότητα των ανωτέρω διατάξεων με την αρχή "ne bis in idem". Τέλος, αναφέρονται οι περιπτώσεις κατά τις οποίες ο νόμιμος τίτλος καθίσταται ανενεργός. Στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο καταγράφεται λεπτομερώς η διαδικασία της κατάσχεσης και του πλειστηριασμού. Περαιτέρω, γίνεται αναφορά στις νέες διατάξεις του ν. 4174/2013 (ΚΦΔ) ως προς την εκτελεστική διαδικασία, ειδικότερα δε στις διατάξεις που αφορούν στα διασφαλιστικά μέτρα των απαιτήσεων του Δημοσίου και στην εισαγωγή της αλληλέγγυας ευθύνης. Στο τελευταίο κεφάλαιο γίνεται λόγος για την νόμιμη άμυνα του οφειλέτη που θεσμοθετείται με την άσκηση ανακοπής κατά των πράξεων της εκτελεστικής διαδικασίας.
description: This dissertation aims to analyze in detail the procedure of the administrative execution. Precisely, in the first chapter the definitions of the terms " administrative execution" and " public incomes" are given. Furthermore, we try to record the initial "steps" of this procedure concentrating on the judicial and theoretical issues of the creation of the legal title and the personal notification. In addition to this, the fines and the penalties imposed by the Codex of Collection of Public Incomes-Taxes and their compatibility to the judicial principle "ne bis in idem" are analyzed. We mention also the occasions, according to which the legal title becomes dead and buried/ inactive. In the third chapter, we record in detail the procedure of the confiscation and the auction. Moreover, we make a reference to the new Codex of Fiscal Procedure (4174/2013) over the procedure of execution, more precisely over the measures reassuring the fiscal claims of the Greek State and the introduction of the solidary responsibility. In the final chapter, we refer to the legal defense of the debtor, which is institutionalized with the legal remedy of appeal against the acts of the procedure of the administrative execution.
DEFORMATION OF A CYLINDRICAL SHELL BY EXTERNAL PRESSURE
Creators: name: Fidrovska, N.
name: Slepuzhnikov, E.
name: Perevoznik, I.
name: Khursenko, S.
Publisher: name: Sciences of Europe
Year: 2021
Subjects: cylindrical shell
external pressure
stress-strain state
rope drum.

description: The article considers the problem of determining the stress-strain state of a thin-walled cylindrical shell under the action of external pressure. Such structures are used in many machines, for example, aircraft casings, submarine casings, drums of hoisting machines. Equations were derived for circumferential, longitudinal and axial displacements depending on the geometric dimensions and elastic properties of the rope and drum. At the same time, the hypotheses about the non-tightness of the shell in the circumferential direction and the absence of displacement were not accepted. This brings the design scheme much closer to the actual operating conditions of the cylindrical shell.
Βελτιστοποίηση γενικών συνδέσεων σε συστήματα Spark
Creators: name: Μπούζμπας, Φαίδων Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: Γενικές συνδέσεις
Βελτιστοποίηση κόστους επικοινωνία
Apache Spark
Theta-Joins
Optimization of communication cost

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία, παρουσιάζουμε και εξετάζουμε τρόπους για την αποδοτικότερη εκτέλεση γενικών συνδέσεων σε ένα σύστημα Spark που επεκτείνει το προγραμματιστικό μοντέλο MapRecuce. Συγκεκριμένα, επικεντρωνόμαστε στη βελτιστοποίηση του ποσοστού του κόστους επικοινωνίας, που προκύπτει από την υλοποίηση γενικών συνδέσεων στο σύστημα Spark και στην αποδοτικότερη κατανομή του φόρτου εργασίας, που επηρεάζεται από τη διασπορά των δεδομένων μέσα σε ένα κατανεμημένο σύστημα. Παράλληλα εκτελούμε πειράματα σε μεγάλα σύνολα δεδομένων και παρουσιάζουμε τα ευρήματα, που δείχνουν το ποσοστό της βελτιστοποίησης που έχει επιτευχθεί. Τέλος, αναφέρουμε μία ολοκληρωμένη μεθοδολογία για την εισαγωγή δεδομένων σε ένα σύστημα Spark και τη χρήση των κατάλληλων τεχνικών για τη μείωση του κόστους επικοινωνίας κατά την εκτέλεση γενικών συνδέσεων.
description: In this work, we present and examine ways for a more efficient run of theta joins in a Spark system which extends the MapReduce programming model. Specifically, we focus on the optimization of the percentage of the communication cost, which occurs by performing theta joins in a Spark system and on the efficiency of the workload, which is affected by the dispersion of the data in a distributed system. Meanwhile, we conduct experiments in big sets of data and we present the findings, which show the optimization percentage that has been accomplished. Finally, we mention a methodology for inserting data in a Spark system and using appropriate techniques in order to reduce the communication cost that occurs during the execution of natural join tasks.
STUDY OF THE WORLD EXPERIENCE OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION ON THE CONTROL OF THE SPREAD OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
Creators: name: Makarenko, M.
Publisher: name: Sciences of Europe
Year: 2021
Subjects: public administration
health
the COVID-19 pandemic
the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic
anti-epidemic protection.

description: The article examines the experience of some countries in the fight against the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. The national peculiarities of the functioning of the respective subjects in the system of public administration of foreign countries are analyzed. Ukraine’s further measures to privatize certain state-owned facilities, use publicprivate partnership mechanisms, and accelerate the implementation of European standards of health care have been identified. The need to focus on economic policy in the post-crisis period is justified, which will allow to achieve a rapid recovery and increase employment by stimulating certain sectors. Emphasis is placed on the need for dynamic change of priorities aimed at adapting to the changes caused by the crisis and in accordance with the demand generated by the market.
ABC News/Washington Post Poll: Trump/Coronavirus/2020 Presidential Election
Creators: name: ABC News
name: Washington Post
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Registered to vote (1); voter likelihood (1); President Donald Trump vs. Former Vice President Joe Biden for President (1); enthusiasm about supporting Biden/Trump (2); making it easier to cast absentee ballot/vote by mail (1); Trump job performance (2); nation's economy (1); favorability of Trump/Biden (2); Trump/Biden characteristics (10); Trump handling of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak (5); Trump vs. Biden on coronavirus handling (2); state governor coronavirus handling approval (1); possible coronavirus second wave (1); control of coronavirus spread vs. economy (1); willingness to go to public places (1); extended unemployment benefits (1); personal experience regarding coronavirus (3); coronavirus vaccine (2); economic impacts of coronavirus (1); Democratic nomination for president (1).
On a worldsheet dual of the Gaussian matrix model
Creators: name: Razamat, Shlomo S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss a modification of Gopakumar's prescription for constructing string theory duals of free gauge theories. We use this prescription to construct an unconventional worldsheet dual of the Gaussian matrix model.
description: 32 pages, 7 figures
Η αντανάκλαση στερεοτυπικών αντιλήψεων παιδιών προσχολικής ηλικίας στις διαπροσωπικές τους σχέσεις στο πολυπολιτισμικό σχολικό περιβάλλον του Νηπιαγωγείου Οφρυνίου του νομού Καβάλας.
Creators: name: Βάικου, Αναστασία Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: Στερεότυπα
Προκατάληψη
Διαπροσωπικές σχέσεις
Stereotypes
Prejudice
Interpersonal relations

description: Σκοπός της διατριβής ήταν η μελέτη του φαινομένου της αντανάκλασης στερεοτυπικών αντιλήψεων παιδιών προσχολικής ηλικίας στο πολυπολιτισμικό σχολικό περιβάλλον του Νηπιαγωγείου Οφρυνίου του νομού Καβάλας. Εξετάσαμε την ορολογία των όρων στερεότυπα, προκατάληψη και διαπροσωπικές σχέσεις. Μελετήσαμε τις απόψεις των νηπίων σχετικά με την πολιτισμική ετερότητα μέσω της συνέντευξης. Παρουσιάσαμε τις διαπροσωπικές τους σχέσεις εφαρμόζοντας κοινωνιομετρικά τεστ. Επίσης παρουσιάσαμε το ρόλο του παιδικού εικονογραφημένου βιβλίου προς άρση στερεοτύπων, εφαρμόζοντας οργανωμένες δραστηριότητες διαπολιτισμικής προσέγγισης βασισμένες στο παιδικό εικονογραφημένο βιβλίο.
description: Τhe aim of the present thesis was to study the phenomenon of reflection of stereotypical beliefs in preschool aged children and their interpersonal relations in a multicultural school context. We examined the proposed terminology of conditions stereotypes, prejudice and interpersonal relations. Then we presented the views of infants and toddlers on cultural diversity through interviews. Furthermore we presented their interpersonal relations applying socio-metric tests. We also examined the role of children’s illustrated books to dispel stereotypes by applying organized intercultural activities based on children’s illustrated books.
Prism international
Creators: name: Prism International
Publisher: name: Vancouver : The Creative Writing Program of the University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The following description is provided by the publisher:
 FICTION
 “Jonny Did Not Want to Participate in the Panel” by Jon Paul Fiorentino
 “Oskar’s Feet Get Wet” by Joe Davies
 “Husband Wife Lover” by Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam
 “Chung Hee”, “One Page May Hide Another” by Sophie Rosenblum
 “Speak!” by Emil Ostrovski
 “Robin and Doug” by Jessica Block
 “The Day We Buried Augustus” by Megan Callahan
 NON-FICTION
 “Dinner with the Vittrekwas” by Carleigh Baker
 “Fight and Flight” by Chris Donahoe
 POETRY
 “Why Don’t I”, “Lately I’ve Been Drinking NyQuil” by Vincent Page
 “Stella for Star”, “Tin” by Tanis MacDonald
 “Black Sea Nettle”, “Division” by Dani Couture
 “Arrows Arrows Heart”, “Swimming (my lane)” by Nathan Curnow
 “Dominoes” by Teresa Plana
 “Birding in Wolfville” by Stevie Howell
 “Come and Measure a New Self” by Jessi MacEachern
 “a pair in theses” by Kyle Kinaschuk
 “Elegy in Apalachian”, “The Birthday Party” by Adam Day
 “Plastic Surgeon Song” by John Wall Barger
 “Squawking Penguin Poem” by David Romanda
 COVER IMAGE
 “The Fiery Umbrella” by Oleg Oprisco
Time to Really Re-Envisage Teacher Education
Creators: name: McPhail, A.
Publisher: name: The School of Education and Communities, University of East London
Year: 2020

description: In every edition of Research in Teacher education we publish a contribution from a guest writer who has links with the School of Education and Communities at UEL. Professor Ann MacPhail is Assistant Dean Research in the Faculty of Education and Health Sciences and a member of the Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences at the University of Limerick, Ireland. Ann’s research interests include the professional learning needs of teacher educators, practices in teacher education programmes, self-study, curriculum and instructional models in physical education and assessment. Ann is a Council member of the International Forum for Teacher Educator Development (InFo-TED). In this article she reflects on the impact Covid-19 might have on teacher education and the extent to which the pandemic reinforces and/or challenges her notion of what it means to be an effective initial teacher educator.
Small group elicitation session on passives, causatives, statives, applicatives
Creators: name: Massoma, Achille
name: Sandy, Clare S.
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: abb

description: b-B distribution before various vowel heights; 'two', 'beer', 'soap', 'cane rat'; "He called the crab", "The boy called the crab", "the animals came", "I call crabs", "He cooks food for the child", "He cooked food for the child", "He gives it to it, for you"; "It's counted by the men"; causatives: 'grind', 'see', 'open', 'show', 'look', 'search', 'cook'; applicatives: 'break', 'cook', 'tear', 'write', 'eat', 'finish', 'count', 'extinguish'; passives, statives, applicative, and causatives: 'extinguish', 'cook', 'cut', 'say', 'converse', 'cut', 'write'; passives, statives, applicative, and causatives: 'tie'; word final N > NC? 'wen', 'fen', 'charcoal'; passives, statives, applicative, and causatives: 'black'; stative: 'love'.
Ejection of Hyper-Velocity Stars from the Galactic Centre by Intermediate-Mass Black Holes
Creators: name: Baumgardt, Holger
name: Gualandris, Alessia
name: Zwart, Simon Portegies
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have performed N-body simulations of the formation of hyper-velocity stars (HVS) in the centre of the Milky Way due to inspiralling intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs). We considered IMBHs of different masses, all starting from circular orbits at an initial distance of 0.1 pc. We find that the IMBHs sink to the centre of the Galaxy due to dynamical friction, where they deplete the central cusp of stars. Some of these stars become HVS and are ejected with velocities sufficiently high to escape the Galaxy. Since the HVS carry with them information about their origin, in particular in the moment of ejection, the velocity distribution and the direction in which they escape the Galaxy, detecting a population of HVS will provide insight in the ejection processes and could therefore provide indirect evidence for the existence of IMBHs. Our simulations show that HVS are generated in short bursts which last only a few Myrs until the IMBH is swallowed by the supermassive black hole (SMBH). HVS are ejected almost isotropically, which makes IMBH induced ejections hard to distinguish from ejections due to encounters of stellar binaries with a SMBH. After the HVS have reached the galactic halo, their escape velocities correlate with the distance from the Galactic centre in the sense that the fastest HVS can be found furthest away from the centre. The velocity distribution of HVS generated by inspiralling IMBHs is also nearly independent of the mass of the IMBH and can be quite distinct from one generated by binary encounters. Finally, our simulations show that the presence of an IMBH in the Galactic centre changes the stellar density distribution inside r<0.02 pc into a core profile, which takes at least 100 Myrs to replenish.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS in press
Determination of the basic parameters of the dwarf nova EY Cygni
Creators: name: Echevarria, J.
name: Michel, R.
name: Costero, R.
name: Zharikov, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-dispersion spectroscopy of EY Cyg obtained from data spanning twelve years show, for the first time, the radial velocity curves from both emission and absorption line systems, yielding semi-amplitudes K_{em}=24+/- 4 km s^-1 and K_{abs}=54+/- 2 km s^-1. The orbital period of this system is found to be 0.4593249(1)d. The masses of the stars, their mass ratio and their separation are found to be M_1 sin^3 i = 0.015+/-0.002 M_sun, M_2 sin^3 i = 0.007+/-0.002 M_sun, q = K_1/K_2 = M_2/M_1 = 0.44+/-0.02 and a sin i = 0.71+/-0.04 R_sun. We also found that the spectral type of the secondary star is around K0,consistent with an early determination by Kraft(1962). From the spectral type of the secondary star and simple comparisons with single main sequence stars, we conclude that the radius of the secondary star is about 30 per cent larger than a main sequence star of the same mass. We also present VRI CCD photometric observations, some of them simultaneous with the spectroscopic runs. The photometric data shows several light modulations, including a sinusoidal behaviour with twice the frequency of the orbital period, characteristic of the modulation coming from an elongated, irradiated secondary star. Low and high states during quiescence are also detected and discussed. From several constrains, we obtain tight limits for the inclination angle of the binary system between 13 and 15 degrees, with a best value of 14 degrees obtained from the sinusoidal light curve analysis. From the above results we derive masses M_1 = 1.10+/-0.09 M_sun, M_2 = 0.49+/-0.09 M_sun, and a binary separation a = 2.9+/- 0.1 R_sun.
description: 14 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication on A&A
Μελέτη των απόψεων των παιδιών Ρομά πρώτης σχολικής ηλικίας που διαμένουν στον οικισμό της Αγίας Σοφίας Θεσσαλονίκης για τη σχολική τους εμπειρία και διερεύνηση των αντιλήψεων των μητέρων τους για την
Creators: name: Αλεξοπούλου, Ειρήνη Φωτίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: Ρομά
Οικισμός Αγίας Σοφίας
Αντιλήψεις για την εκπαίδευση
Roma
Agia Sofia settlement
Beliefs about education

description: Η παρούσα έρευνα πραγματεύεται τη διερεύνηση των απόψεων παιδιών Ρομά πρώτης σχολικής ηλικίας που διαμένουν στον οικισμό της Αγίας Σοφίας στο Δήμο Δέλτα Θεσσαλονίκης και των αντιλήψεων των μητέρων τους σχετικά με την εκπαίδευση. Συμμετείχαν 10 μητέρες και τα παιδιά τους, 7-8 ετών, καθώς είναι η ηλικία που συνήθως έρχονται σε πρώτη επαφή με την επίσημη εκπαίδευση. Οι πρώτες αυτές εμπειρίες είναι καθοριστικές για τη μετέπειτα σχολική πορεία των παιδιών, ιδιαίτερα των Ρομά, και τη σχέση που αναπτύσσουν οι γονείς τους με το σχολείο. Πραγματοποιήθηκαν συνεντεύξεις στα σπίτια των οικογενειών με τη χρήση πρωτοκόλλου ημι-δομημένης συνέντευξης που αναπτύχθηκε στη βάση των στόχων της έρευνας και της σχετικής βιβλιογραφίας. Εφαρμόστηκε ποιοτική και ποσοτική ανάλυση περιεχομένου. Αναδείχθηκαν οι βραχυπρόθεσμες προσδοκίες μητέρων και παιδιών από το σχολείο, οι κυριότεροι φόβοι και οι δυσκολίες κατά τη φοίτηση, οι λόγοι για τη σχολική αποτυχία και διαρροή, αλλά και οι θετικές εμπειρίες σε συνδυασμό με τις προσδοκίες για το μέλλον. Τέλος, διατυπώθηκαν προτάσεις για τη βελτίωση της σχολικής εμπειρίας.
description: This study is about first school age Roma children that live in Agia Sofia settlement in Thessaloniki and their mothers’ beliefs about formal education and schooling.10 mothers and their 7-8 year-old children, which is the age that they usually enter formal schooling, were recruited using purposeful sampling processes. This age period was selected as these first experiences are determinant for the next school years, especially in case of Roma children and the relation that they and their parents develop with school. The semi-structured interviews took place in the families’ houses using an interview protocol that was developed in the base of the research purposes and the relative literature. Qualitative and quantitative content analysis was applied. Mothers and children’s short-term expectations, the main fears and difficulties during schooling, the reasons for the school failure and non-attendance, but also the positive experiences combined with the expectations for the future were highlighted. Finally, suggestions to improve school experience are reported.
Quantum gate entangler for general multipartite systems
Creators: name: Heydari, Hoshang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct quantum gate entangler for general multipartite states based on topological unitary operators. We show that these operators can entangle quantum states if they satisfy the separability condition that is given by the complex multi-projective Segre variety. We also in detail discuss the construction of quantum gate entangler for higher dimensional bipartite and three-partite quantum systems.
description: 6 pages
Πρότυπα ιστορίας ζωής των ψαριών των εσωτερικών υδάτων που κινδυνεύουν
Creators: name: Σταυρίδου, Φανή Φλωρεντία
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: Χαρακτηριστικά ιστορίας ζωής
Εσωτερικά ύδατα
Κινδυνεύοντα είδη
Life history traits
Freshwater
Threatened species

description: Τα χαρακτηριστικά ιστορίας ζωής (life-history traits) των ειδών ψαριών χρησιμοποιούνται, μεταξύ άλλων, για την εκτίμηση του κινδύνου που διατρέχουν τόσο στη θάλασσα όσο και στα εσωτερικά ύδατα. Σκοπός της παρούσας έρευνας ήταν η διερεύνηση της σχέσης των χαρακτηριστικών ιστορίας ζωής των ψαριών των εσωτερικών ειδών που κινδυνεύουν παγκοσμίως. Για το σκοπό αυτό μελετήθηκαν εννιά χαρακτηριστικά ιστορίας ζωής για 1786 είδη ψαριών, που σύμφωνα με τον κατάλογο της IUCN βρίσκονται σε κάποια από τις τρεις κρισιμότερες κατηγορίες κινδύνου (κρισίμως κινδυνεύοντα, κινδυνεύοντα, τρωτά). Τα αποτελέσματα της έρευνας έδειξαν αρχικά ότι τα περισσότερα είδη που ανήκουν σε κάποια κατηγορία κινδύνου κατανέμονται γεωγραφικά σε χαμηλότερα γεωγραφικά πλάτη (τροπική ζώνη). Επίσης, βρέθηκε ότι το μεγαλύτερο πρόβλημα υπάρχει στα είδη της Ευρώπης, όπου το 50% περίπου των ειδών της απαντούν σε κάποια κατηγορία κινδύνου. Η έρευνα αυτή κατέδειξε την ύπαρξη συγκεκριμένων χαρακτηριστικών ιστορίας ζωής, στα είδη που απαντούν στις κατηγορίες κινδύνου που είναι περισσότερο κρίσιμες, τα οποία μπορούν να χρησιμοποιηθούν ως διαχειριστικά εργαλεία για τη λήψη κατάλληλων μέτρων για την προστασία τόσο των πληθυσμών τους όσο και των ενδιαιτημάτων τους.
description: The life-history traits of fishes are used, among others, for the assessment of threat related, both at marine and fresh waters. The aim of this study was to examine the patterns and the possible relationships of the threatened freshwater fish traits, globally. For this purpose, data of nine life history traits for 1786 species, cited in the red list of the IUCN under the three most critical categories of risk (critically endangered, endangered, vulnerable) were collected, mostly from fishbase and published literature. The results of the study showed that the most threatened families are Cyprinidae and Cichlidae. Threatened species are distributed in lower latitudes (tropical zone), with Europe having, 50% of their hosted species under threat. In conclusion, threatened fish species globally have specific traits, which could be used as management tools for their protection and conservation.
Voting with care : women, men and moral reasoning : does difference make a difference?
Creators: name: Bancroft, Wendy Ruth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The following thesis provides a theoretical and empirical treatment of the argument proposed in 1982 by psychologist, Carol Gilligan, that women and men employ different orientations in their moral reasoning. Gilligan says men see moral conflict as a struggle between competing rights, while women see moral conflict as a struggle between competing responsibilities. Where the perspective associated with men arises out of a valuing of individual achievement and sees fairness as equality, women value relational connections and see fairness as a response to need. Males priorize universal principles; females priorize attention to context. Beyond its assertion of difference, Gilligan’s argument challenges the privilege given to notions of justice espoused by liberal theorists such as John Rawls and John Stuart Mill, and reflected in Lawrence Kohlberg’s stage sequence model of moral development. While Gilligan does not deny the value of this justice orientation, she argues that it was formed in the absence of women and that as it stands, it lacks the necessary, and equal, elements of compassion and connection that reflect an ethic of care. The argument has sparked philosophical and empirical debate across several academic fields. This thesis pays attention to that debate as well as contributing an empirical test of the hypothesis that women are more caring than men, in the context of voting behaviour. One hundred and ninety-one students at the University of British Columbia took part in an experimental survey in which the hypothesis was tested in two conditions: 1) subjects were asked to base a vote for either Candidate X or Y in the absence of defining criteria other than electoral poll popularity ratings, and 2) with the addition of candidate issue positions on social welfare policy. The expectation was that while both males and females were subject to the social influence provided by the opinion poll results, women, motivated by a care orientation, would be more likely to choose the underdog candidate than men. This did not prove to be the case. Not only did more women bandwagon than men in condition 1, but in condition 2 where candidates were clearly associated with care versus rights positions, no sex differences emerged. Discussion of these findings addresses the impact of the political venue on moral orientation, while the conclusion focuses on the implications of moral difference for women’s political behaviour and modem society.
Drell-Yan Lepton Angular Distribution at Small Transverse Momentum
Creators: name: Boer, Daniel
name: Vogelsang, Werner
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the dependence of the Drell-Yan cross section on lepton polar and azimuthal angles, as generated by the lowest-order QCD annihilation and Compton processes. We focus in particular on the azimuthal-angular distributions, which are of the form cos(phi) and cos(2phi). At small transverse momentum q_T of the lepton pair, q_T << Q, with Q the pair mass, these terms are known to be suppressed relative to the phi-independent part of the Drell-Yan cross section by one or two powers of the transverse momentum. Nonetheless, as we show, like the phi-independent part they are subject to large logarithmic corrections, whose precise form however depends on the reference frame chosen. These logarithmic contributions ultimately require resummation to all orders in the strong coupling. We discuss the potential effects of resummation on the various angular terms in the cross section and on the Lam-Tung relation.
description: 13 pages, 2 figures; reference added, minor other changes, matches version to be published in PRD
Prism international
Creators: name: Prism International
Publisher: name: Vancouver : The Creative Writing Program of the University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The following description is provided by the publisher:
 FICTION
 “Reading Week” by Sharon Bala
 “The city is uneven” by rob mclennan
 “Guest Room” by Craig Takeuchi
 “Karin Finally” by Alex Pugsley
 “Glorious Kingdom” by Annie Reid
 “Stories in Abstract” by Ben Merriman
 “Untitled” by Barry Dempster
 NON-FICTION
 “In Considering Henry Kissinger” by Elizabeth Horneber
 POETRY
 “La Traviata”, “Dissection” by Kim Fu
 “It’s the Chicken Parable”, “I Am Bluebeard’s Wife”, “The Colour of Ash” by Amanda Paananen
 “Again, I Insist I Don’t Want Ashes” by Mallory Imler Powell
 “Open Your Other Heart To Me” by John F. Buckley
 “Poppy”, “Solvitur Ambulando” by Joseph Kidney
 “Phone” by Elizabeth Morton
 “Wishbone” by Robert Nazarene
 “The Oracle”, “Fallow”, “Head Full of Pink Glass” by Pamela Langevin
 “Anecdotal Evidence for the Existence of God”, “Anecdotal Evidence Against the Existence of God” by Donovan McAbee
 “Epilogue”, “Extremity” by Jami Macarty
 “When For a Time I Loved Two Women” and “Captain Ahab and the Great Shroud of the Sea” by Matt Rader
 COVER IMAGE
 “Don John” by Søren Solkær
J- and Ks-band Galaxy Counts and Color Distributions in the AKARI North Ecliptic Pole Field
Creators: name: Imai, Koji
name: Matsuhara, Hideo
name: Oyabu, Shinki
name: Wada, Takehiko
name: Takagi, Toshinobu
name: Fujishiro, Naofumi
name: Hanami, Hitoshi
name: Pearson, Chris P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the J- and Ks-band galaxy counts and galaxy colors covering 750 square arcminutes in the deep AKARI North Ecliptic Pole (NEP) field, using the FLoridA Multi-object Imaging Near-ir Grism Observational Spectrometer (FLAMINGOS) on the Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) 2.1m telescope. The limiting magnitudes with a signal-to-noise ratio of three in the deepest regions are 21.85 and 20.15 in the J- and Ks-bands respectively in the Vega magnitude system. The J- and Ks-band galaxy counts in the AKARI NEP field are broadly in good agreement with those of other results in the literature, however we find some indication of a change in the galaxy number count slope at J~19.5 and over the magnitude range 18.0 < Ks < 19.5. We interpret this feature as a change in the dominant population at these magnitudes because we also find an associated change in the B - Ks color distribution at these magnitudes where the number of blue samples in the magnitude range 18.5 < Ks < 19.5 is significantly larger than that of Ks < 17.5.
Maximum Valency Lattice Gas Models
Creators: name: Sastry, Srikanth
name: La Nave, Emilia
name: Sciortino, Francesco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study lattice gas models with the imposition of a constraint on the maximum number of bonds (nearest neighbor interactions) that particles can participate in. The critical parameters, as well as the coexistence region are studied using the mean field approximation and the Bethe-Peierls approximation. We find that the reduction of the number of interactions suppresses the temperature-density region where the liquid and gas phases coexist. We confirm these results from simulations using the histogram reweighting method employing grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations.
In Vivo monitoring of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens during intravenous self-administration of D-Amphetamine by the rat
Creators: name: Di Ciano, Patricia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: Current theory suggests that mesolimbic dopamine (DA) in the nucleus accumbens is involved in the self-administration of drugs such as cocaine and amphetamine. The present thesis was conducted to determine some of the behavioural and in vivo dopaminergic correlates of intravenous (i.v.) self-administration of amphetamine in the rat. Experiment one tested the hypothesis that rats will self-administer amphetamine to maintain an optimal extracellular level of DA in the brain that exceeds a critical threshold. In vivo measurements of DA oxidation currents (electrochemical studies) and DA dialysate concentrations (microdialysis study) were used to determine changes in extracellular DA concentrations in rats permitted to self-administer 12 infusions of d-amphetamine a day at a given dose. During all self-administration sessions, distinct ‘loading’ and ‘maintenance’ phases were seen. The loading phase was characterized by rapid responding at the start of the session which slowed during the maintenance phase to a constant level for the duration of the selfadministration session. DA extracellular concentrations in the nucleus accumbens increased at the start of the self-administration session and then levelled off around a stable mean for the duration of the session. An inverse dose-response relationship between rate of responding for amphetamine and the dose of drug administered (0.05, 0.10 or 0.20 mg/infusion) was seen. No dose-related changes in the maximal increase in DA oxidation currents or dialysate concentrations during self administration was evident. Experiment two tested the hypothesis that increased DA levels associated with the reinitiation of responding after an abstinence serve as a negative reinforcer by increasing DA levels that are theoretically depleted during an abstinence (Dackis and Gold, 1985). When permitted continuous access to 0.10 mg/infusion of amphetamine for 48 hours, response rates and in vivo DA oxidation currents were similar to those in experiment one and remained steady during the course of the entire self-administration session. After at least 24 hours, all rats abstained from self-administering amphetamine for a single period of time lasting at least two hours. During this time, a decrease in DA concentrations was seen. Reinitiation of responding for amphetamine did not occur when DA concentrations were at their lowest, but was correlated with an immediate increase in DA concentrations as measured by in vivo electrochemistry. In summary, the findings of experiment one and two suggest that rats titer self-administered i.v. amphetamine to maintain a steady optimal extracellular level of DA in the brain that exceeds a reinforcement threshold.
On (alpha,beta,gamma)-derivations of Lie algebras and corresponding invariant functions
Creators: name: Novotný, Petr
name: Hrivnák, Jiří
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 17B05; 17B40

description: We consider finite-dimensional complex Lie algebras. We generalize the concept of Lie derivations via certain complex parameters and obtain various Lie and Jordan operator algebras as well as two one-parametric sets of linear operators. Using these parametric sets, we introduce complex functions with fundamental property - invariance under Lie isomorphisms. One of these basis-independent functions represents a complete set of invariant(s) for three-dimensional Lie algebras. We present also its application on physically motivated examples in dimension eight.
description: 12 pages
Ο γραμματισμός των γυναικών Ρομά ως παράγοντας ενίσχυσης της κοινωνικής τους θέσης και βελτίωσης της ακαδημαϊκής πορείας των παιδιών τους. Συγκριτική διερεύνηση των απόψεων μητέρων Ρομά σε δύο οικισμο
Creators: name: Τσιούλη, Βασιλική Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: μητέρες Ρομά
γραμματισμός
απόψεις σχετικά με την εκπαίδευση
Roma mothers
literacy
beliefs on education

description: Στην παρούσα εργασία διερευνήθηκαν οι απόψεις 20 μητέρων Ρομά, δύο διαφορετικών οικισμών του δήμου Δέλτα, σχετικά με το ενδεχόμενο γραμματισμού τους και συγκεντρώθηκαν πληροφορίες αναφορικά με τις απόψεις τους για την εκπαίδευση των παιδιών τους και την συμμετοχή τους σε αυτήν. Επιπλέον, διερευνήθηκε ο κοινωνικός ρόλος των μητέρων Ρομά που συμμετείχαν στην έρευνα, μέσω στοιχείων της καθημερινότητάς τους. Στην έρευνα συμμετείχαν 20 τσιγγάνες μητέρες από τους οικισμούς Κύμινα και Αγία Σοφία. Οι πληροφορίες συγκεντρώθηκαν μέσω ημι-δομημένων συνεντεύξεων, οι οποίες εφαρμόστηκαν και αναλύθηκαν. Η συγκριτική μελέτη του υλικού με βάση το κοινωνικο-οικονομικό επίπεδο των δύο οικισμών που παρουσιάζει σημαντικές διαφορές, ανέδειξε τη σχέση του με το επίπεδο γραμματισμού τους και την εμπλοκή των μητέρων στην σχολική εμπειρία των παιδιών τους. Ωστόσο, άλλα στοιχεία που αφορούν τον παραδοσιακό κοινωνικό ρόλο των γυναικών Ρομά δε διαφοροποιούνται σημαντικά με βάση τις συνθήκες διαβίωσης. Επίσης, μητέρες Ρομά με προηγούμενη εμπειρία συμμετοχής σε πρόγραμμα γραμματισμού δε φάνηκε να διαφοροποιούν τις απαντήσεις τους βάσει αυτής, γεγονός που επισημαίνει ενδεχομένως την μικρή προσφορά αντίστοιχων προγραμμάτων εξαιτίας μεταξύ άλλων της σύντομης διάρκειάς τους.
description: The present study examined the beliefs of 20 Roma mothers, who live in two different communities of Delta municipality (Thessaloniki, Greece), about their literacy potential. We also collected information about their beliefs on children’s education and their parental involvement. The social role of Roma women has been also investigated, trough their everyday life. The participants were 20 gypsy women of Kimina and Agia Sofia communities. Information was collected by semi-structured interviews that was applied and analyzed. The comparative study of the material according to the social-economic status of these two communities, which has important differences, shows its association with mother’s involvement in children’s education. However, data concerning the traditional social role of Roma mothers don’t diversify based on living circumstances. Also, mothers with prior experience in literacy program didn’t diversify their answers based on the experience itself. This fact shows the not important affect of these programs, as a result of their short duration.
Normal metal - superconductor tunnel junction as a Brownian refrigerator
Creators: name: Pekola, J. P.
name: Hekking, F. W. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermal noise generated by a hot resistor (resistance $R$) can, under proper conditions, catalyze heat removal from a cold normal metal (N) in contact with a superconductor (S) via a tunnel barrier. Such a NIS junction acts as Maxwell's demon, rectifying the heat flow. Upon reversal of the temperature gradient between the resistor and the junction the heat fluxes are reversed: this presents a regime which is not accessible in an ordinary voltage-biased NIS structure. We obtain analytical results for the cooling performance in an idealized high impedance environment, and perform numerical calculations for general $R$. We conclude by assessing the experimental feasibility of the proposed effect.
Prism international
Creators: name: Prism International
Publisher: name: Vancouver : The Creative Writing Program of the University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: The following description is provided by the publisher:
 NON-FICTION CONTEST ISSUE
 (judged by Russell Wangersky)
 GRAND PRIZE
 “Ghostly Transmissions from John D. Rockefeller” by Danny Jacobs
 RUNNERS-UP
 “Reconstructing” by Liza Porter
 “How To Give a Passive-Agressive Handjob” by Victoria Young
 FICTION
 “San Fernando, Trinidad: School Year 1995-1996” by Phedra Deonarine
 “Are You There, God? It Is I, Robot” by Tom Cho
 “Not Her Husband” by Danielle Burnette
 “Pelican” by Andrew F. Sullivan
 POETRY
 “When Does the Hunger Begin?”, “Somnambulist Almanac”, “Dear Sara II”, “Dear Sara IV”, “Sweat, Woman”, “Grammar by the Minute” by Adèle Barclay
 “To My Dearest Carl Akeley” by Kirya Marchand
 “Heirloom Folklore Our Grandmother Has Unnamed by Repeating Again and Again” by Nandini Dhar
 “Song”, “Light”, “The Alhambra” by Warren Heiti
 “Love Poem After Industrial Society and Its Future“, “The Specializationoff Labour”, “Leo X as Leo II in the Room of The Fire in the Borgo” by Jacob McArthur Mooney
 “The Ten Suggestions”, “Cheat” by Julie Paul
 “Tropical Pineapple with Umbrella”, “Sweet Meat” by Victoria McArtor
 “Deism, Penticton”, “Super, Natural” by Neil Surkan
 TRANSLATION
 “Flavius’s Girl: To Flavius” by Catullus, Translation by Nathaniel G. Moore
 COVER IMAGE
 “African Horned Melon” by Maciek Jasik
Where surface physics and fluid dynamics meet: rupture of an amphiphile layer by fluid flow
Creators: name: Bandi, Mahesh
name: Goldburg, Walter
name: Cressman, John
name: Kellay, Hamid
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the fluctuating pattern created by a jet of fluid impingent upon an amphiphile-covered surface. This microscopically thin layer is initially covered with 50 $μ$m floating particles so that the layer can be visualized. A vertical jet of water located below the surface and directed upward drives a hole in this layer. The hole is particle-free and is surrounded by the particle-laden amphiphile region. The jet ruptures the amphiphile layer creating a particle-free region that is surrounded by the particle-covered surface. The aim of the experiment is to understand the (fluctuating) shape of the ramified interface between the particle-laden and particle-free regions.
description: published in Journal of Chemical Physics
Small group elicitation session on applicatives
Creators: name: Massoma, Achille
name: Borchardt, Nadine
name: Lionnet, Florian
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: abb

description: Ditransitive: "I give it to the child"; ditransitive/applicative: "He cooks it for the child"; ditransitive/applicative: 'cook'; applicative: 'send'; applicative: 'walk' (no applicative); applicative: 'hit'; applicative: 'hit each other, collide'; ditransitive: 'beg' (no applicative); applicative: 'tear'; applicative: 'break'; applicative: 'buy'; applicative: 'buy' 2; applicative: 'break'; applicative: 'call'; applicative: 'count'; applicative: 'extinguish' (no applicative); applicative: 'feed' (no applicative); direct/indirect causative: 'finish' (no applicative); ditransitive: 'write' (no applicative); applicative: 'dance'.
Ο Επικουρισμός στον Κικέρωνα
Creators: name: Κατσάμπας, Χρήστος Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2016
Subjects: Επίκουρος
Κικέρωνας
φιλοσοφία
Epicurus
Cicero
philosophy

description: Θέμα της εργασίας είναι η παρουσίαση της επικούρειας φιλοσοφίας στα έργα του Κικέρωνα, ο έλεγχος της αξιοπιστίας του ρήτορα ως καταγραφέα της διδασκαλίας του Επίκουρου και η κριτική που ασκεί σε αυτή. Η μελέτη εστιάζει κυρίως στα φιλοσοφικά έργα του ρήτορα και συγκεκριμένα σε αυτά όπου παραθέτει, αναλύει, σχολιάζει ολόκληρους τομείς της φιλοσοφίας του Επίκουρου ή και μεμονωμένες του φράσεις και απόψεις. Κύριοι θεματικοί άξονες των φιλοσοφικών έργων αποτελούν η ηθική, η θεολογία, η φυσική και η γνωσιολογία, κοινώς σχεδόν όλοι οι τομείς του επιστητού. H εργασία οργανώνεται γύρω από ένα κεντρικό άξονα, ένα δομικό τρίπτυχο. Σε ένα πρώτο επίπεδο παρουσιάζεται η επικούρεια φιλοσοφία, όπως τη μεταφέρει ο Κικέρωνας, σε ένα δεύτερο διασταυρώνονται οι πληροφορίες με διαθέσιμες πηγές επικούρειων φιλοσόφων, με έμφαση στα ίδια τα έργα του Επίκουρου και σε ένα τρίτο αναλύεται η κριτική που ασκεί ο Κικέρωνας σε κάθε επικούρεια θέση και επιχείρημα. Αυτό το τρίπτυχο της πραγμάτευσης και επεξεργασίας του υλικού εφαρμόζεται σε κάθε ενότητα αλλά και επιμέρους κεφάλαιο της εργασίας.
description: The subject of this paper is the presentation of the epicurean philosophy in the works of Cicero, as well as the orator’s reliability as a recorder of the Garden and his review on each philosophical theme. The paper mainly focuses on Cicero’s philosophical works and particularly in those who quotes, analyses and comments entire teaching sectors of Epicurus or even single phrases and views. Most important themes of his teaching are ethics, theology, physics and epistemology, in other words each and every sector of knowledge. The paper is organized on a central motif, a structural triplet. On the first level is presented the epicurean philosophy as it is quoted by Cicero, on a second we crosscheck these information with available epicurean sources mainly based on Epicurus’ works and on a third level we analyze the criticism of Cicero on the epicurean thesis. This structural triplet of procession is applied in every chapter of the paper.
On the Origin of the Tunneling Asymmetry in the Cuprate Superconductors: a variational perspective
Creators: name: Yang, Hong-Yu
name: Yang, Fan
name: Jiang, Yong-Jin
name: Li, Tao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Through variational Monte Carlo calculation on Gutzwiller projected wave functions, we study the quasiparticle(qp) weight for adding and removing an electron from a high temperature superconductor. We find the qp weight is particle-hole symmetric at sufficiently low energy. We propose to use the tunneling asymmetry as a tool to study the mechanism of electron incoherence in high temperature superconductors.
description: 5 pages, 4figures