cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Natural mortality of Trachurus novaezelandiae and their size selection by purse seines off south-eastern Australia
Creators: name: Broadhurst, M. K.
name: Kienzle, M.
name: Stewart, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The natural mortality (M) and purse-seine catchability and selectivity were estimated for Trachurus novaezelandiae, Richardson, 1843 (yellowtail scad)-a small inshore pelagic species harvested off south-eastern Australia. Hazard functions were applied to two decades of data describing catches (mostly stable at a mean +- SE of 315 +- 14 t p.a.) and effort (declining from a maximum of 2289 to 642 boat days between 1999/00 and 2015/16) and inter-dispersed (over nine years) annual estimates of size-at-age (0+ to 18 years) to enable survival analysis. The data were best described by a model with eight parameters, including catchability (estimated at < 0.1 x 10-7 boat day-1), M (0.22 year-1) and variable age-specific selection up to 6 years with a 50% retention among 5-year olds (larger than the estimated age at maturation). The low catchability implied minimal fishing mortality by the purse-seine fleet. Ongoing monitoring and applied gear-based studies are required to validate purse-seine catchability and selectivity, but the data nevertheless imply T. novaezelandiae could incur substantial additional fishing effort and, in doing, so alleviate pressure on other regional small pelagics.
Templates to be used in Project management and in Clinical Trial Monitoring
Creators: name: Arias, Lilibeth
name: Vilaplana, Cristina
name: Fonseca, Kaori L.
name: Martinson, Neil
name: Waja, Ziyaad
name: Vashakidze, Sergo
name: Tukvadze, Nestani
name: Korinteli, Tamta
name: Chirgadze, Tamar
name: Witbooi, Denise
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Clinical Trial
project monitoring
templates
project management
EC funding
H2020
toolkit
capacity building

description: We have developed several documents to be used within the SMA-TB project. From these, we have generated (as part of the SMA-TB Capacity-building toolkit) several templates which others can adapt and use for Project management monitoring and Clinical Trial Monitoring for their projects. This has been done in the context of SMA-TB WP1 (Task 1.1.) and WP4 (task 4.4.) The list of the templates included are: Templates for Project management: Deliverable template Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) template Word document template Project impact report template Templates for Clinical Trial Monitoring: Central Monitoring Report template Site Initiation Visit Checklist template Monitoring Site Visit Checklist template Monitoring Close-Out Site Visit Checklist and Report template Templates for Clinical Trial performance: Delegation of Responsibilities Log template Training Log template Screening Log template Enrolment Log template Investigational Medical Product Dispensing and Accountability Log template Serious Adverse Event Reporting form template Code Break Inquiry template Code Break Report template Meeting attendance template Protocol Deviation tracker template Informed Consent tracker template
Constraints on Primordial Black Holes with Extended Mass Functions
Creators: name: Kuhnel, Florian
name: Freese, Katherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Constraints on primordial black holes in the range $10^{-18} M_{\odot}$ to $10^{3} M_{\odot}$ are reevaluated for a general class of extended mass functions. Whereas previous work has assumed that PBHs are produced with one single mass, instead there is expected to be a range of masses even in the case of production from a single mechanism; constraints therefore change from previous literature. Although tightly constrained in the majority of cases, it is shown that, even under conservative assumptions, primordial black holes in the mass range $10^{-10} M_{\odot}$ to $10^{-8} M_{\odot}$ could still constitute the entirety of the dark matter. This stresses both the importance for a comprehensive reevaluation of all respective constraints that have previously been evaluated only for a monochromatic mass function, and the need to obtain more constraints in the allowed mass range.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures; v2: references added, minor changes
Deformed quons and bi-coherent states
Creators: name: Bagarello, Fabio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss how a q-mutation relation can be deformed replacing a pair of conjugate operators with two other and unrelated operators, as it is done in the construction of pseudo-fermions, pseudo-bosons and truncated pseudo-bosons. This deformation involves interesting mathematical problems and suggests possible applications to pseudo-hermitian quantum mechanics. We construct bi-coherent states associated to $\D$-pseudo-quons, and we show that they share many of their properties with ordinary coherent states. In particular, we find conditions for these states to exist, to be eigenstates of suitable annihilation operators and to give rise to a resolution of the identity. Two examples are discussed in details, one connected to an unbounded similarity map, and the other to a bounded map.
description: in press in Proceedings of the Royal Society A
A long term study of AGN X-ray variability. Structure function analysis on a ROSAT-XMM quasar sample
Creators: name: Middei, R.
name: Vagnetti, F.
name: Bianchi, S.
name: La Franca, F.
name: Paolillo, M.
name: Ursini, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variability in the X-rays is a key ingredient in understanding and unveiling active galactic nuclei (AGN) properties. In this band flux variations occur on short time scales (hours) as well as on larger times scales. While short time scale variability is often investigated in single source studies, only few works are able to explore flux variation on very long time scales.This work provides a statistical analysis of the AGN long term X-ray variability. We study variability on the largest time interval ever investigated for the 0.2-2 keV band, up to $\sim 20$ years rest-frame for a sample of 220 sources. Moreover, we study variability for 2,700 quasars up to $\sim 8$ years rest-frame in the same (soft) band.We build our source sample using the 3XMM serendipitous source catalogue data release 5, and data from ROSAT All Sky Survey Bright and Faint source catalogues. In order to select only AGN we use the Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasar catalogues data releases 7 and 12. Combining ROSAT and XMM-Newton observations, we investigate variability using the structure function analysis which describes the amount of variability as a function of the lag between the observations.Our work shows an increase of the structure function up to 20 years. We do not find evidence of a plateau in the structure function on these long time scales.The increase of the structure function at long time lags suggests that variability in the soft X-rays can be influenced by flux variations originated in the accretion disk or that they take place in a region large enough to justify variation on such long time scales.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures, to appear on A&A, minor corrections for affiliations and language
Letter from Kathleen Raine to Herbert Read, [1949?-1965?], [13]
Creators: name: Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172
subject: Philosophers, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1060765
subject: Philosophers
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1060746
subject: Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/52672
subject: Scholars
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1106878
subject: Art historians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815554
subject: Critics
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/883769
subject: Authors, English--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821953
subject: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1754386
subject: Modernism (Literature)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024455

description: Part of a collection of correspondence from Kathleen Raine to Herbert Read. Raine was a British scholar and poet who was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1992. The correspondence here follows Raine’s work on a book about William Blake’s mythology. Other topics include discussion of philosophical and metaphysical subjects, and references to acquaintances in literary and arts circles. In this letter, Raine invites Read for a visit, thanks him for sending a book and some poems, and responds to the Nobel awards with "utter disgust".
Hot Stuff for One Year (HSOY) - A 583 million star proper motion catalogue derived from Gaia DR1 and PPMXL
Creators: name: Altmann, Martin
name: Roeser, Siegfried
name: Demleitner, Markus
name: Bastian, Ulrich
name: Schilbach, Elena
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, the first installment of data from ESA's Gaia astrometric satellite mission (Gaia-DR1) was released, containing positions of more than 1 billion stars with unprecedented precision, as well as only proper motions and parallaxes, however only for a subset of 2 million objects. The second release, due in late 2017 or early 2018, will include those quantities for most objects. In order to provide a dataset that bridges the time gap between the Gaia-DR1 and Gaia-DR2 releases and partly remedies the lack of proper motions in the former, HSOY ("Hot Stuff for One Year") was created as a hybrid catalogue between Gaia-DR1 and ground-based astrometry, featuring proper motions (but no parallaxes) for a large fraction of the DR1 objects. While not attempting to compete with future Gaia releases in terms of data quality or number of objects, the aim of HSOY is to provide improved proper motions partly based on Gaia data, allowing some studies to be carried out just now or as pilot studies for later larger projects requiring higher-precision data. The HSOY catalogue was compiled using the positions taken from Gaia-DR1 combined with the input data from the PPMXL catalogue, employing the same weighted least-squares technique that was used to assemble the PPMXL catalogue itself. Results. This effort resulted in a four-parameter astrometric catalogue containing 583,000,000 objects, with Gaia-DR1 quality positions and proper motions with precisions from significantly less than 1 mas/yr to 5 mas/yr, depending on the object's brightness and location on the sky.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in A&A letters
Solar polarimetry through the K I lines at 770 nm
Creators: name: Noda, C. Quintero
name: Uitenbroek, H.
name: Katsukawa, Y.
name: Shimizu, T.
name: Oba, T.
name: Carlsson, M.
name: Suárez, D. Orozco
name: Cobo, B. Ruiz
name: Kubo, M.
name: Anan, T.
name: Ichimoto, K.
name: Suematsu, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We characterize the K I D1 & D2 lines in order to determine whether they could complement the 850 nm window, containing the Ca II infrared triplet lines and several Zeeman sensitive photospheric lines, that was studied previously. We investigate the effect of partial redistribution on the intensity profiles, their sensitivity to changes in different atmospheric parameters, and the spatial distribution of Zeeman polarization signals employing a realistic magnetohydrodynamic simulation. The results show that these lines form in the upper photosphere at around 500 km and that they are sensitive to the line of sight velocity and magnetic field strength at heights where neither the photospheric lines nor the Ca II infrared lines are. However, at the same time, we found that their sensitivity to the temperature essentially comes from the photosphere. Then, we conclude that the K I lines provide a complement to the lines in the 850 nm window for the determination of atmospheric parameters in the upper photosphere, especially for the line of sight velocity and the magnetic field.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures, main journal publication
Letter from Kathleen Raine to Herbert Read, [1949?-1965?], [06]
Creators: name: Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Philosophers, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1060765
subject: Art historians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815554
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Raine, Kathleen, 1908-2003
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/52672
subject: Scholars
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1106878
subject: Authors, English--Correspondence
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821953
subject: Philosophers
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1060746
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1754386
subject: Modernism (Literature)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1024455
subject: Literature, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1000172
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Critics
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/883769
subject: Girton College (University of Cambridge)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/615432
subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870

description: Part of a collection of correspondence from Kathleen Raine to Herbert Read. Raine was a British scholar and poet who was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 1992. The correspondence here follows Raine’s work on a book about William Blake’s mythology. Other topics include discussion of philosophical and metaphysical subjects, and references to acquaintances in literary and arts circles. In this letter Raine discusses Edwin Muir and a new book by Robin Skelton.
Polymorphisms in CAST genes and their association with feed conversion ratio in Latvian Dark-Head sheep
Creators: name: Trapina, Ilva
name: Kairisa, Daina
name: Plavina, Samanta
name: Paramonovs, Jegors
name: Krasnevska, Nikola
name: Paramonova, Natalia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Calpastatin
Latvian Dark-head
Sheep
Selection
Feed conversion ratio

description: In animal husbandry, feed efficiency is a crucial economic trait. The feed conversion ratio (FCR) is a traditional metric for assessing feed efficiency, defined as the ratio of dry matter intake to average daily gain. Improving FCR parameter in breeding is highly important for sheep production. Sire rams with better FCR indicators produce offspring with higher value of this indicator. With the rapid development of science and technology (DNA analysis), more opportunities for breeding using genetic markers associated with various productive traits exist. Calpastatin (CAST) plays a key role in skeletal muscle development and is involved in protein metabolism, muscle growth and development, and fat deposition. This study aimed to analyze CAST gene polymorphisms and their relationship with FCR in the Latvian Dark-head (LT; Latvijas tumšgalve) breed. After control fattening, blood samples were collected from 48 offspring of LT sires for DNA isolation. Exons of CAST gene and flanking intron regions were sequenced using NGS technology. The CAST gene has been sequenced in LT lambs for the first time; 43 polymorphisms with known ID numbers were identified. From all loci, 18 were rear: minor alleles less than 10%. In the case of SNPs: rs408766737, FCR values of lambs homozygous for the rear allele were statistically significantly lower than the rest of the animals from the experimental cohort. Therefore, CAST gene SNPs have the potential to be molecular markers to predict the FCR value.
Adiabatic corrections for velocity-gauge simulations of electron dynamics in periodic potentials
Creators: name: Yakovlev, Vladislav S.
name: Wismer, Michael S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show how to significantly reduce the number of energy bands required to model the interaction of light with crystalline solids in the velocity gauge. We achieve this by deriving analytical corrections to the electric current density. These corrections depend only on band energies, the matrix elements of the momentum operator, and the macroscopic vector potential. Thus, the corrections can be evaluated independently from modeling the interaction with light. In addition to improving the convergence of velocity-gauge calculations, our analytical approach overcomes the long-standing problem of divergences in expressions for linear and nonlinear susceptibilities.
description: Submitted to Computer Physics Communications
The remarkable outburst of the highly evolved post-period-minimum dwarf nova SSS J122221.7-311525
Creators: name: Neustroev, V. V.
name: Marsh, T. R.
name: Zharikov, S. V.
name: Knigge, C.
name: Kuulkers, E.
name: Osborne, J. P.
name: Page, K. L.
name: Steeghs, D.
name: Suleimanov, V. F.
name: Tovmassian, G.
name: Breedt, E.
name: Frebel, A.
name: Garcia-Diaz, Ma. T.
name: Hambsch, F. -J.
name: Jacobson, H.
name: Parsons, S. G.
name: Ryu, T.
name: Sabin, L.
name: Sjoberg, G.
name: Miroshnichenko, A. S.
name: Reichart, D. E.
name: Haislip, J. B.
name: Ivarsen, K. M.
name: LaCluyze, A. P.
name: Moore, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report extensive 3-yr multiwavelength observations of the WZ Sge-type dwarf nova SSS J122221.7-311525 during its unusual double superoutburst, the following decline and in quiescence. The second segment of the superoutburst had a long duration of 33 d and a very gentle decline with a rate of 0.02 mag/d, and it displayed an extended post-outburst decline lasting at least 500 d. Simultaneously with the start of the rapid fading from the superoutburst plateau, the system showed the appearance of a strong near-infrared excess resulting in very red colours, which reached extreme values (B-I~1.4) about 20 d later. The colours then became bluer again, but it took at least 250 d to acquire a stable level. Superhumps were clearly visible in the light curve from our very first time-resolved observations until at least 420 d after the rapid fading from the superoutburst. The spectroscopic and photometric data revealed an orbital period of 109.80 min and a fractional superhump period excess <0.8 per cent, indicating a very low mass ratio q<0.045. With such a small mass ratio the donor mass should be below the hydrogen-burning minimum mass limit. The observed infrared flux in quiescence is indeed much lower than is expected from a cataclysmic variable with a near-main-sequence donor star. This strongly suggests a brown-dwarf-like nature for the donor and that SSS J122221.7-311525 has already evolved away from the period minimum towards longer periods, with the donor now extremely dim.
description: 24 pages, 19 figures, Matches to MNRAS published version, typos corrected
Probabilistic interpretation of the wave function for the Bianchi I model
Creators: name: Agostini, Leonardo
name: Cianfrani, Francesco
name: Montani, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare two different approaches for quantization of the Bianchi I model: a reduced phase space quantization, in which the isotropic Misner variables is taken as time, and the Vilenkin proposal, in which a semiclassical approximation is performed for the same variable. We outline the technical and interpretative issues of these two methods and we demonstrate that they provide equivalent results only if the dynamics is essentially dictated by the isotropic matter contribution.
description: 7 pages
EVALUATION OF ASPIRIN RESPONSIVENESS IN ESSENTIAL THROMBOCYTHEMIA PATIENTS
Creators: name: RIZZO, JESSICA
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2018

description: Background. Essential thrombocythemia (ET) is characterized by an increased number of platelets, associated with risk for both bleeding and thrombotic complications. Prophylaxis with 100 mg acetylsalicylic acid (ASA) is indicated in patients at risk. A significant proportion of ET patients (ETs) display an inadequate pharmacodynamics (PD) response to ASA. It has been suggested that poor responsiveness is due to increased platelet production and a bis in die (bid) administration should be preferred. Aim of this study was to investigate further the potential mechanism(s) of poor responsiveness to ASA in ETs. Methods. We enrolled 17 ETs on 100 mg enteric-coated (EC)-ASA (commonly used) treatment and 10 healthy subjects (HS). 7 ETs were identified as poor responders (ET-PR) and 10 as responders (ET-R), based on their levels of serum TxB2 (cut-off=10 ng/ml). Blood samples were taken in the morning, 24 h after the previous intake, and immediately after taking the drug up to 8 h. We measured: serum TxB2 (ELISA) and ASA and salicylic acid (SA) (ID-LC-MS/MS); the enzymatic activity in whole blood and plasma of esterase enzymes able to hydrolyse ASA to SA. Moreover, collagen (5 �g/ml)-induced platelet aggregation and TxA2 production were tested by in vitro addition of ASA (10-1000 �M) to whole blood of HS and ET-PR. Reticulated platelets were also measured by flow-cytometry in 15 ET (8 R, 7 PR) and 8 HS. Results. The in vitro dose-response curve of ASA for inhibition of TxA2 generation was comparable in HS and ET-PR samples. Esterase activities were similar in all groups. The pharmacokinetics (PK) of EC-ASA was very variable within both ETs and HS, while PKs of plain ASA showed a uniform behaviour. All ET-PR and 3 ET-R showed an impaired TxB2 (>10 ng/mL) at 24 h. In these ETs the difference between TxB2 at 24 h and the min value of TxB2 correlated (r=0.6107; p= 0.0020) with reticulated platelets and bid administration suppressed serum TxB2 levels. Conclusions. Causes of poor response may be related from one side to reduced absorption of EC-ASA, on the other to increased platelet turnover.
PAH chemistry at eV internal energies. 2. Ring alteration and dissociation
Creators: name: Trinquier, Georges
name: Simon, Aude
name: Rapacioli, Mathias
name: Gadéa, Florent Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recognized as important interstellar constituents, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) have been intensively studied in astrochemistry and their spectroscopy, thermodynamics, dynamics, and fragmentations are now amply documented. There exists typical alternatives to the ground-state regular planar structures of PAHs, as long as they bear internal energies in the range 1-10 eV. Resulting from intramolecular rearrangements, such high-lying minima on the potential- energy surfaces should be taken into consideration in the studies of PAH processing in astrophysical conditions. Resting upon DFT calculations mainly performed on two emblematic PAH representatives, coronene and pyrene, in their neutral and mono and multi-cationic states, this second survey addresses the following alternatives: (1) opened forms containing ethynyl or 2- butynyl groups, (2) vinylidene isomers, in which phenanthrene patterns are reorganized into dibenzofulvene ones, (3) twisted forms, where external CH=CH bonds can be partly twisted, and (4) bicyclobutane forms, in which the latter are integrated in saturated bicyclic forms. A few scenarios for elimination of fragments H, H2, C2H2 and C2H4 are explored. As far as possible, familiar concepts of organic chemistry, such as aromaticity or Clar's rules, are invoked for interpretations.
description: 65 pages, accepted by Molecular Astrophysics
title: Complexity, co-creation and social practices – re-constructing quality improvement: a case study in mental health
Creators: name: Hofer, SA
Publisher: name: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Year: 2020

description: The use of research evidence to change clinical practice remains a significant challenge. Quality improvement (QI) offers a methodological approach to support this ‘knowledge to practice’ process. However, most research on QI focuses on the use of knowledge and not its creation to improve practice. This research aimed to address this gap through an exploration of the social process of co-creating knowledge within a QI project. The case study aimed to improve the physical health of people with serious mental illness through the introduction of a physical health ‘pathway’. The QI project used participatory approaches to introduce new evidence-based clinical practices, initially on a single ward, and then scaled-up across five additional wards within an acute mental health unit in the National Health Service (NHS) in England. This four-year study used ethnographically-informed qualitative participatory approach approaches where the researcher was part of the QI project. Data were generated through participant observations, interviews and documentary analysis. The analysis included generating a narrative of the project, and the use of Knowledge Mobilisation and Implementation Science frameworks. This research offers a window on the social construction of a QI project. Improvement is a socio-technical process that relies on social practices to generate the work required to support the ‘knowledge to practice’ process. QI methods draw on the tacit knowledge and experiences of stakeholders which is codified in outputs from workshops, which in turn can be used in the co-design of interventions. This co-constitutive process of simultaneous knowledge ‘use’ and ‘creation’ contributes to the co-creation of collective understandings and meanings, which compose the social practices of QI. However, issues of responsibility and accountability pose a significant challenge, and a careful balance needs to be found between the use of the data for managing performance and supporting staff to reflect on their practice.
Materials for an Evidence-based software engineering & Systematic reviews course
Creators: name: Pizard, Sebastián
name: Acerenza, Fernando
name: Vallespir, Diego
name: Kitchenham, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: This material is intended to serve as a reference for preparing and delivering EBSE and SRs courses. A Spanish version was used to teach EBSE and SRs courses at the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay) during 2017-2019 and 2021. We defined a syllabus that aims to promote the practical application of EBSE, this includes: Basic aspects of scientific publications (e.g., how to distinguish between scientific papers from other types of publications) and introduction to research in SE (e.g., what research methods are commonly used in SE and for what purpose). These topics are necessary to understand EBSE and it is necessary to include them because many students do not know them when taking our course. Introduction to the evidence-based paradigm and characteristics of SRs in SE. Based on chapters 1 to 3 of the reference book on EBSE and SRs [1]. The process of an SR and characteristics of each of its stages. Namely, SR planning, search for primary studies, study selection, study quality assessment, data extraction from primary studies, analysis in mapping studies, qualitative synthesis, reporting of an SR, and knowledge translation and diffusion). Based on chapters 4-10, 12, and 14 of the EBSE book. In our 2021 course, we included the ‘Considerations on the use of evidence and the EBSE process’ topic in week 12 so that the course has a greater emphasis on EBSE and its use. More information about our first EBSE and SRs course and its evaluation can be found in the following paper: Pizard, S., Acerenza, F., Otegui, X. et al. Training students in evidence-based software engineering and systematic reviews: a systematic review and empirical study. Empir Software Eng 26, 50 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10664-021-09953-9 More information about the first three courses and their effects on students are presented at: Sebastián Pizard, Diego Vallespir, and Barbara Kitchenham. 2022. A longitudinal case study on the effects of an evidence-based software engineering training. In the 44nd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering Education and Training (ICSE-SEET ’22), May 21–29, 2022, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 13 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3510456.3514150 [1] Kitchenham, B., Budgen, D., & Brereton, P. (2015). Evidence-based software engineering and systematic reviews. CRC Press.
Towards the Assessment of Stress and Emotional Responses of a Salutogenesis-Enhanced Software Tool Using Psychophysiological Measurements
Creators: name: Ostberg, Jan-Peter
name: Graziotin, Daniel
name: Wagner, Stefan
name: Derntl, Birgit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software development is intellectual, based on collaboration, and performed in a highly demanding economic market. As such, it is dominated by time pressure, stress, and emotional trauma. While studies of affect are emerging and rising in software engineering research, stress has yet to find its place in the literature despite that it is highly related to affect. In this paper, we study stress coping with the affect-laden framework of Salutogenesis, which is a validated psychological framework for enhancing mental health through a feeling of coherence. We propose a controlled experiment for testing our hypotheses that a static analysis tool enhanced with the Salutogenesis model will bring 1) a higher number of fixed quality issues, 2) reduced cognitive load, 3) reduction of the overall stress, and 4) positive affect induction effects to developers. The experiment will make use of validated physiological measurements of stress as proxied by cortisol and alpha-amylase levels in saliva samples, a psychometrically validated measurement of mood and affect disposition, and stress inductors such as a cognitive load task. Our hypotheses, if empirically supported, will lead to the creation of environments, methods, and tools that alleviate stress among developers while enhancing affect on the job and task performance.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. To be presented at the Second International Workshop on Emotion Awareness in Software Engineering, colocated with the 39th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE'17)
Terminal thermocapillary migration of a droplet at small Reynolds numbers and large Marangoni numbers
Creators: name: Wu, Zuo-Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the overall steady-state momentum and energy balances in the thermocapillary migration of a droplet at small Reynolds numbers and large Marangoni numbers are investigated to confirm the quasi-steady state assumption of the system. The droplet is assumed to have a slight axisymmetric deformation from a sphere shape. It is shown that under the quasi-steady state assumption, the total momentum of the thermocapillary droplet migration system at small Reynolds numbers is conservative. The general solution of the steady momentum equations can be determined with its parameters depending on the temperature fields. However, a nonconservative integral thermal flux across the interface for the steady thermocapillary migration of the droplet at small Reynolds numbers and large Marangoni numbers is identified. The nonconservative integral thermal flux indicates that no solutions of the temperature fields exist for the steady energy equations. The terminal thermocapillary migration of the droplet at small Reynolds numbers and large Marangoni numbers cannot reach a steady state and is thus in an unsteady process.
Mixed extreme wave climate model for reanalysis databases
Creators: name: Minguez, Roberto
name: Tomas, Antonio
name: Mendez, Fernando J.
name: Medina, Raul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hindcast or wave reanalysis databases (WRDB) constitute a powerful source with respect to instrumental records in the design of offshore and coastal structures, since they offer important advantages for the statistical characterization of wave climate variables, such as continuous long time records of significant wave heights, mean and peak periods, etc. However, reanalysis data is less accurate than instrumental records, making extreme data analysis derived from WRDB prone to under predict design return period values. This paper proposes a mixed extreme value model to deal with maxima, which takes full advantage of both (i) hindcast or wave reanalysis and (ii) instrumental records, reducing the uncertainty in its predictions. The resulting mixed model consistently merges the information given by both kinds of data sets, and it can be applied to any extreme value analysis distribution, such as generalized extreme value, peaks over threshold or Pareto-Poisson. The methodology is illustrated using both synthetically generated and real data, the latter taken from a given location on the northern Spanish coast.
Informationsausbildung nicht ohne Dokumentationskenntnisse
Creators: name: Müller-Heiden, Barbara
name: Ockenfeld, Marlies
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Dokumentation
subject: Bibliotheksstudium
subject: Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten
subject: Bibliothekarausbildung
subject: DGI
subject: Euroguide
subject: documentation
subject: library science
subject: scientific work
subject: librarian training
subject: 020 Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaften

description: Die klassische Dokumentation findet heute im Backoffice vieler Informationseinrichtungen statt, ohne dass sie namentlich genannt wird. Ihre Kernanliegen müssen aber eher stärker als in der Vergangenheit im Studium der Bibliotheks- und Informationswissenschaft und anderen Ausbildungsgängen sowie bei Einführungen in das wissenschaftliche Arbeiten in allen Studiengängen berücksichtigt werden.
description: Today, classical documentation takes place in the back office of many information institutions without being mentioned by name. However, its characteristic teaching content must be taken into account in the study of library and information science rather more than in the past. This applies to introductory courses to scientific work also.
СВОБОДА КАК ЭСТЕТИЧЕСКАЯ КАТЕГОРИЯ
Creators: name: САРАФ МИХАИЛ ЯКОВЛЕВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского государственного университета культуры и искусств
Year: 2020
Subjects: свобода
эстетическое
пространство эстетического
эстетическая дистанция
эстетический опыт
трансгрессия
универсализм

description: Автор исходит из понимания свободы как возможности осуществления цели, на пути к которой сняты внешние социальные, индивидуальные и технические ограничения. Свобода выражается как чувственно фиксируемое самоотделение субъекта от содержательных и формальных элементов функциональной структуры своей деятельности и выступает как эстетическое отношение, или эстетическая дистанция. Неутилитарность эстетического есть характеристика свободы, то есть возможность целенаправленной и целесообразной деятельности лишь как процесса формообразования, как игры интеллектуальных и физических способностей и сил человека и выражает её меру. Тем самым свобода оказывается инвариантной составляющей содержания всех эстетических категорий, что, собственно, позволяет говорить и о научных предпосылках и обоснованности их систематик.
The Food and Nutrition Assistance Landscape: Fiscal Year 2021 Annual Report
Creators: name: Jones, Jordan
name: Toossi, Saied
name: Hodges, Leslie
name: Jones, Jordan
name: Toossi, Saied
name: Hodges, Leslie
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Financial Economics
subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Political Economy
subject: Public Economics
subject: Food and nutrition assistance programs
subject: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
subject: Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)
subject: National School Lunch Program (NSLP)
subject: School Breakfast Program (SBP)
subject: Seamless Summer Option (SSO)
subject: Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)
subject: Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
subject: Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT)
subject: Farmers to Families Food Box Program
subject: emergency allotments
subject: food security
subject: Coronavirus
subject: COVID-19 pandemic
subject: economic conditions

description: The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers 15 domestic food and nutrition assistance programs that together affect the lives of millions of people and account for roughly two-thirds of USDA’s annual budget. In response to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, USDA launched additional temporary programs and implemented numerous policy changes that expanded the scope and coverage of existing programs. Together, these initiatives contributed to higher spending on food and nutrition assistance programs in fiscal year (FY) 2021 (October 1, 2020, to September 30, 2021), which amounted to a historical high of $182.5 billion. This report uses preliminary data from USDA, Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) and USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to examine program trends and policy changes in USDA’s largest U.S. food and nutrition assistance programs through FY 2021.
Chemodynamical Modelling of the Galactic Bulge and Bar
Creators: name: Portail, Matthieu
name: Wegg, Christopher
name: Gerhard, Ortwin
name: Ness, Melissa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first self-consistent chemodynamical model fitted to reproduce data for the galactic bulge, bar and inner disk. We extend the Made-to-Measure method to an augmented phase-space including the metallicity of stars, and show its first application to the bar region of the Milky Way. Using data from the ARGOS and APOGEE (DR12) surveys, we adapt the recent dynamical model from Portail et al. to reproduce the observed spatial and kinematic variations as a function of metallicity, thus allowing the detailed study of the 3D density distributions, kinematics and orbital structure of stars in different metallicity bins. We find that metal-rich stars with [Fe/H] > -0.5 are strongly barred and have dynamical properties that are consistent with a common disk origin. Metal-poor stars with [Fe/H] < -0.5 show strong kinematic variations with metallicity, indicating varying contributions from the underlying stellar populations. Outside the central kpc, metal-poor stars are found to have the density and kinematics of a thick disk while in the inner kpc, evidence for an extra concentration of metal-poor stars is found. Finally, the combined orbit distributions of all metallicities in the model naturally reproduce the observed vertex deviations in the bulge. This paper demonstrates the power of Made-to-Measure chemodynamical models, that when extended to other chemical dimensions will be very powerful tools to maximize the information obtained from large spectroscopic surveys such as APOGEE, GALAH and MOONS.
description: Accepted for publication by MNRAS. 20 pages, 17 figures
Modeling the absorption spectrum of the permanganate ion in vacuum and in aqueous solution
Creators: name: Olsen, Jógvan Magnus Haugaard
name: Hedegård, Erik Donovan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The absorption spectrum of the MnO$_{4}$$^{-}$ ion has been a test-bed for quantum-chemical methods over the last decades. Its correct description requires highly-correlated multiconfigurational methods, which are incompatible with the inclusion of finite-temperature and solvent effects due to their high computational demands. Therefore, implicit solvent models are usually employed. Here we show that implicit solvent models are not sufficiently accurate to model the solvent shift of MnO$_{4}$$^{-}$, and we analyze the origins of their failure. We obtain the correct solvent shift for MnO$_{4}$$^{-}$ in aqueous solution by employing the polarizable embedding (PE) model combined with a range-separated complete active space short-range density functional theory method (CAS-srDFT). Finite-temperature effects are taken into account by averaging over structures obtained from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. The explicit treatment of finite-temperature and solvent effects facilitates the interpretation of the bands in the low-energy region of the MnO$_{4}$$^{-}$ absorption spectrum, whose assignment has been elusive.
description: 15 pages, 3 tables, 1 Figure
Intensified antibunching via feedback-induced quantum interference
Creators: name: Lu, Yiping
name: Naumann, Nicolas L.
name: Cerrillo, Javier
name: Zhao, Qing
name: Knorr, Andreas
name: Carmele, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We numerically show that time delayed coherent feedback controls the statistical output characteristics of driven quantum emitters. Quantum feedback allows to enhance or suppress a wide range of classical and nonclassical features of the emitted quantum light. As exemplary quantum system, we use a pumped cavity containing two emitters. By applying phase-selective feedback, we demonstrate that photon antibunching and bunching can be increased in orders of magnitude due to intrinsically and externally controllabe quantum interferences. Our modelling is based on a fully non-Markovian quantum simulation of a structured photon continuum. We show that an approximative method in the Schrödinger picture allows a very good estimate for quantum feedback induced features for low pump rates.
ЗМЕИНЫЙ СИМВОЛИЗМ В КУЛЬТУРНЫХ ТРАДИЦИЯХ ЕВРОПЫ
Creators: name: РАМЗИНА ОЛЬГА ВАЛЕРЬЕВНА
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского государственного университета культуры и искусств
Year: 2020
Subjects: змея
символ
культурная традиция
славянские культуры
заговор
миф
алхимический символизм

description: Один из наиболее символически насыщенных образов мифологии – образ змеи, который был распространён повсеместно, а в наши дни широко эксплуатируется массовой культурой. Змеиные культы были широко представлены в Европе, в том числе в славянском ареале. Змея занимает важное место в легендах и сказках, заговорах и ритуалах. В Сербии и Македонии есть обряд изгнания змей, в Болгарии – избавления от яда змей и последующего излечения. В этих и других славянских странах змея может одновременно служить символом зла и выступать как защитник и покровитель дома. В статье анализируется заговор, демонстрирующий взаимодействие разных культурных традиций. «Змеиный текст культуры», прочитанный в рамках компаративных культурологических исследований, может дать ответы на многие вопросы, раскрывающие ход и специфику этнокультурных процессов.
Terminal states of thermocapillary migration of a planar droplet at moderate and large Marangoni numbers
Creators: name: Wu, Zuo-Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, thermocapillary migration of a planar droplet at moderate and large Marangoni numbers is investigated analytically and numerically. By using the dimension-analysis method, the thermal diffusion time scale is determined as the controlling one of the thermocapillary droplet migration system. During this time, the whole thermocapillary migration process is fully developed. By using the front-tracking method, the steady/unsteady states as the terminal ones at moderate/large Marangoni numbers are captured in a longer time scale than the thermal diffusion time scale. In the terminal states, the instantaneous velocity fields in the unsteady migration process at large Marangoni numbers have the forms of the steady ones at moderate Marangoni numbers. However, in view of the former instantaneous temperature fields, the surface tension of the top surface of the droplet gradually becomes the main component of the driving force on the droplet after the inflection point appears. It is different from that the surface tension of the bottom surface of the droplet is the main component of the driving force on the droplet for the latter ones. The physical mechanism of thermocapillary droplet migration can be described as the significance of the thermal convection around the droplet is higher than/just as the thermal conduction across the droplet at large/moderate Marangoni numbers.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
ПРОБЛЕМЫ ПРОЕКТИРОВАНИЯ СЕТЕВЫХ МУЛЬТИМЕДИЙНО-ИНФОРМАЦИОННЫХ РЕСУРСОВ (НА ПРИМЕРЕ НАЦИОНАЛЬНЫХ РЕСУРСОВ)
Creators: name: МАРДАНШИН АЙДАР РАФАЭЛЕВИЧ
Publisher: name: Вестник Московского государственного университета культуры и искусств
Year: 2020
Subjects: межкультурные коммуникации
сетевые мультимедийно-информационные ресурсы
социальные сети
интернет-мессенджеры
национально-культурные интернет-ресурсы

description: Рассматриваются проблемы проектирования сетевых мультимедийно-информационных ресурсов (СМИР) на примере интернет-ресурсов ряда субъектов Российской Федерации. Автор отмечает, что СМИР не только обеспечивают межкультурные коммуникации в виртуальном пространстве Интернета, но и выступают при этом фактором направленных социокультурных трансформаций в реальном социальном пространстве, а также оказывают позитивное и негативное влияние на коммуникантов как субъектов реальных мультикультурных связей. Наиболее эффективным каналом и инструментом сетевых коммуникаций являются сетевые мультимедийно-информационные ресурсы вследствие таких их особенностей, как интерактивность и эмоционально-эстетическая насыщенность, которые обеспечивают возможности для максимальной реализации в сетевой среде коммуникационного потенциала, в том числе прямой социокультурной направленности. Показано, что СМИР, в которых отражена планомерная, целенаправленная и скоординированная деятельность общественных организаций и движений в разных регионах, направленная на поддержание и продвижение идеи и ценности межнационального мира и согласия, может оказывать положительное влияние на консолидацию всех позитивно настроенных сил общества.