cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Αειφορικός σχεδιασμός της υπαίθρου: εφαρμογή των αρχών της Περμακουλτούρας στην ανάπλαση και επέκταση του οικισμού Τσιβαρά Αποκορώνου
title: Sustainable rural design: application of the principles of Permaculture in the renovation and expansion of Tsivaras, Apokoronas
Creators: name: Ισταυριδη Χριστινα
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Η παρούσα Διπλωματική εργασία επιχειρεί να προσεγγίσει τα ζητήματα της αλλοίωσης του τοπίου, των παραδόσεων και της ποιότητας ζωής των κατοίκων της υπαίθρου, λόγω της ανεξέλεγκτης τουριστικής ανάπτυξης. Αυτό επιτυγχάνεται μέσω των αειφορικών και βιώσιμων αρχών της Περμακουλτούρας που κατά την εφαρμογή τους, δημιουργούν το υπόβαθρο για ένα νέο αειφορικό μοντέλο διάρθρωσης της ανθρώπινης δραστηριότητας, με σκοπό την επίτευξη μιας ισορροπημένης ανάπτυξης με σεβασμό στον κάτοικο, τον τόπο και την ιστορία του, τη δημιουργία νέων προοπτικών στον τρόπο που βιώνει τη δραστηριότητά του στο δημόσιο και τον ιδιωτικό χώρο, καθώς και στο φυσικό τοπίο, την ανάδειξη κάποιων σημαντικών, αλλά άτονων χαρακτηριστικών στοιχείων την περιοχής, τη δημιουργία νέων ισορροπιών ανάμεσα στη φύση και τον άνθρωπο, το παλιό και το νέο, τον επισκέπτη και τον μόνιμο κάτοικο.
Συγκεκριμένα, η πρόταση προσπαθεί να προσαρμόσει σχεδιαστικές ζώνες για αγροκτήματα της Περμακουλτούρας σε Πολεοδομική κλίμακα στον οικισμό του Τσιβαρά Αποκορώνου. Ορίζεται αρχικά μια περιμετρική ζώνη (5) στους λόφους και τα ρέματα για τη διατήρηση των τοπικών οικοσυστημάτων, του μικροκλίματος της περιοχής και τη φυσική αποφυγή καταστροφών λόγω ακραίων καιρικών φαινομένων. Η περιοχή μεταξύ αυτής και του υφιστάμενου οικισμού διαμορφώνεται μέσω ενοποιημένων ζωνών που αναπτύσσονται ακτινωτά σε εκτάσεις των παρακείμενων αγροκτημάτων.
 Όσον αφορά τον υφιστάμενο οικισμό θα εφαρμόσουμε τις αρχές της Περμακουλτούρας στη διαχείριση της γης, των παλιών κελυφών, στην οικονομία και τους τόπους του κοινωνείν. Θα δημιουργήσουμε κέντρα γειτονιάς, με σκοπό την ενίσχυση του κοινοτικού αγροτικού χαρακτήρα της περιοχής, τα οποία θα ενταχθούν στο ευρύτερο δίκτυο κοινόχρηστων χώρων. ταυτόχρονα, θα δημιουργηθεί ένα δίκτυο αποκατεστημένων κελυφών και των χρήσεών τους που στέγαζαν παλιά επαγγέλματα μεταποίησης. Τέλος θα ενισχυθεί και θα επιλυθεί το δίκτυο κυκλοφορίας και θα εκτραπούν οι φυσιολατρικές διαδρομές εντός του για την ενίσχυση του εναλλακτικού τουρισμού.
A Catalog of Broad Absorption Line Quasars in Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 5
Creators: name: Gibson, Robert R.
name: Jiang, Linhua
name: Brandt, W. N.
name: Hall, Patrick B.
name: Shen, Yue
name: Wu, Jianfeng
name: Anderson, Scott F.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Berk, Daniel Vanden
name: Gallagher, S. C.
name: Fan, Xiaohui
name: York, Donald G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a catalog of 5039 broad absorption line (BAL) quasars (QSOs) in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 (DR5) QSO catalog that have absorption troughs covering a continuous velocity range >= 2000 km/s. We have fit ultraviolet (UV) continua and line emission in each case, enabling us to report common diagnostics of BAL strengths and velocities in the range -25,000 to 0 km/s for SiIV $λ$1400, CIV $λ$1549, AlIII $λ$1857, and MgII $λ$2799. We calculate these diagnostics using the spectrum listed in the DR5 QSO catalog, and also for spectra from additional SDSS observing epochs when available. In cases where BAL QSOs have been observed with Chandra or XMM-Newton, we report the X-ray monochromatic luminosities of these sources. We confirm and extend previous findings that BAL QSOs are more strongly reddened in the rest-frame UV than non-BAL QSOs and that BAL QSOs are relatively X-ray weak compared to non-BAL QSOs. The observed BAL fraction is dependent on the spectral signal-to-noise (S/N); for higher-S/N sources, we find an observed BAL fraction of approximately 15%. BAL QSOs show a similar Baldwin effect as for non-BAL QSOs, in that their CIV emission equivalent widths decrease with increasing continuum luminosity. However, BAL QSOs have weaker CIV emission in general than do non-BAL QSOs. Sources with higher UV luminosities are more likely to have higher-velocity outflows, and the BAL outflow velocity and UV absorption strength are correlated with relative X-ray weakness. These results are in qualitative agreement with models that depend on strong X-ray absorption to shield the outflow from over-ionization and enable radiative acceleration....
description: accepted to ApJ; 65 pages, 18 figures; adjustments made to abstract formatting
Phoneme training for adult cochlear implant users (Philpott et al., 2023)
Creators: name: Philpott, Nikki
name: Philips, Birgit
name: Tromp, Kayla
name: Kramer, Sophia
name: Mylanus, Emmanuel
name: Huinck, Wendy
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420102
subject: Audiology
classificationCode: 460212
subject: Speech recognition

description: Purpose: This study describes a protocol for a novel individualized phoneme training program for adult cochlear implant (CI) users, based on individual phoneme confusion errors. The protocol is underpinned by a literature review on phoneme training and a focus group with adult CI users.Method: After a literature search, five studies were included for review and evaluation of quality and level of evidence. A focus group with experienced adult CI users (n = 7) was then conducted to gain insights into their experiences of auditory training post-implantation and recommendations for future training programs. The knowledge gained from the literature review and focus group was used as the foundation for a novel, individualized phoneme training program for adult CI users, for which the protocol is described in this study.Results: A review of the literature shows that phoneme training in adult CI users has variable outcomes for on-task and off-task measures. Overall, the concept of individualized training relates to adaptive difficulty within training tasks and not to tailoring training content to participants’ individual needs, as indicated by clinical outcomes. The focus group revealed that participants want to be able to track their training progress, have training content tailored to their individual needs, and expressed a preference for shorter training sessions.Conclusions: Using learnings from a literature review and focus group, this study describes a protocol for a novel, individualized phoneme training program for adult CI users. Study findings from this phoneme training program will be disseminated when available.Supplemental Material S1. Participant responses.Philpott, N., Philips, B., Tromp, K., Kramer, S., Mylanus, E., & Huinck, W. (2023). Phoneme training for adult cochlear implant users: A review of the literature and study protocol. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 66(12), 5071–5086. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00335
Untitled ItemEffects of Rational Emotive Behavioural Therapy (REBT) in Curbing Examination Malpractice Behaviour among Public Secondary School Students in Calabar Municipality
Creators: name: Ntamu, Blessing
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Educational psychology
Educational counselling

description: This research was an experimental study carried out to achieve value reorientation with the purpose of changing maladaptive behaviour.
Additional file 2 of Platelet miRNAs: differential expression in coronary artery disease and associations with course of left ventricular systolic function
Creators: name: Goldschmied, Andreas
name: Drotleff, Bernhard
name: Winter, Stefan
name: Schaeffeler, Elke
name: Schwab, Matthias
name: Gawaz, Meinrad
name: Geisler, Tobias
name: Rath, Dominik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary figure 2: Comparison of individual miRNA expression levels stratified according to Δ LVEF%
title: Στατιστική ανάλυση των προτιμήσεων των τουριστών στην Κρήτη
title: Statistical analysis of tourist preferences in Crete
Creators: name: Κολαρετακης Γεωργιος
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2020

description: Η ανάλυση της συμπεριφοράς και των προτιμήσεων των τουριστών στην Κρήτη και γενικότερα στην Ελλάδα είναι απαραίτητη τόσο για τους τοπικούς φορείς του τουρισμού, όσο και για τους κατοίκους της ώστε να εκμεταλλευτούν τις ευκαιρίες που παρουσιάζονται κάθε χρόνο και να προσαρμοστούν στις σημερινές ανάγκες.
Σε αυτή την εργασία γίνεται αρχικά μια αξιολόγηση του brand της Ελλάδας σε σύγκριση με τον άμεσο ανταγωνισμό των χωρών της νότιας Ευρώπης με χρήση δεικτών για την υπόδειξη της υφιστάμενης θέσης της Ελλάδας.
 Έπειτα παρουσιάζεται μια ανάλυση στοιχείων του εισερχόμενου τουρισμού ανά αγορά και ανά περιφέρεια της Ελλάδας .Αναλύονται τα μεγέθη για τις επισκέψεις, τις διανυκτερεύσεις και τις εισπράξεις στην ελληνική αγορά με την βοήθεια βασικών δεικτών όπως είναι η δαπάνη ανά επίσκεψη, δαπάνη ανά διανυκτέρευση και μέση διάρκεια παραμονής κάθε επισκέπτη.
Στην συνέχεια ακολουθούν στατιστικά στοιχεία που αφορούν αποκλειστικά την περιφέρεια Κρήτης  όπως τα βασικά μεγέθη του εισερχόμενου τουρισμού, τις θέσεις εργασίας που προκύπτουν ,το δυναμικό σε ξενοδοχεία και ενοικιαζόμενα δωμάτια  Επιπλέον οι αεροπορικές αφίξεις η κίνηση των κρουαζιερόπλοιων και ο συνολικός αριθμός επισκεπτών σε μουσεία και αρχαιολογικούς χώρους .
Τέλος παρουσιάζονται επιπλέον αποτελέσματα έρευνας που έγινε μέσω του εργαλείου SPSS αξιοποιώντας ερωτηματολόγια που μοιράστηκαν  στο αεροδρόμιο Χανίων. Καταγράφονται τα χαρακτηριστικά και οι προτιμήσεις του συνόλου των επισκεπτών και γίνονται διαχωρισμοί με βάση επιλεγμένα κριτήρια .

description: The analysis of the behavior and preferences of tourists in Crete, and in Greece in general, is necessary not only for local tourism agencies buy also for Greek residents, in order to take advantage of the opportunities presented each year and adapt to current needs. In this paper, an assessment of the Greek brand is initially made in comparison with the direct competition of the countries of southern Europe using indexes to indicate the existing position of Greece. Then, an analysis of incoming tourism data by market and by Greek region is presented. The figures for the visits, overnight stays and receipts in the Greek market are analyzed with the help of key indicators such as the cost per visit, cost per night and average stay of each visitor. Moreover, statistics that concern exclusively the region of Crete are mentioned, such as the basic sizes of inbound tourism, the resulting jobs, the potential in hotels and rooms for rent, as well as air arrivals, cruise ship traffic and the total number of visitors to museums and archeological sites. In conclusion, additional results of a survey conducted through the SPSS tool using questionnaires distributed at Chania Airport are shown. The characteristics and preferences of all the visitors are recorded and divisions are made based on selected criteria.
Production of the Smallest QED Atom: True Muonium (mu^+ mu^-)
Creators: name: Brodsky, Stanley J.
name: Lebed, Richard F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The "true muonium" (mu^+ mu-) and "true tauonium" (tau^+ tau^-) bound states are not only the heaviest, but also the most compact pure QED systems. The rapid weak decay of the tau makes the observation of true tauonium difficult. However, as we show, the production and study of true muonium is possible at modern electron-positron colliders.
description: 4 pages, ReVTeX, 4 eps figures; minor wording changes and reordering of a reference. Version accepted by Phys. Rev. Lett
Strategic implication of the global mobile phone industry: Analyzing COVID-19 impact from competitive viewpoint
Creators: name: Alam, Samsul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: COVID-19 impact
Competitive approach
Global mobile phone industry
Strategic implication

description: The purpose of this study is to analyze the present scenario of global mobile phone companies in the context of strategy implementation. Here the author tries to show the competitive scenarios of mobile phone companies in the current situation. At the same time here it is also shown how COVID-19 affects the industry and its growth. In this qualitative study that is based on secondary data, some strategic directions are discussed that are and can be applied for sustainability and growth. Based on the data shown from published papers and online sources and subsequent discussion based on these data, there is an insignificant negative effect of COVID-19 on global mobile phone brands. The outcome of this study is useful for the industry policymaker, investor, user, and other stakeholders of the global mobile phone industry to tackle present and future COVID-19 situations. Finally, some strategic approaches are discussed and appropriate solutions are suggested to cope up with the pandemic situation and attain success.
Additional file 5 of Platelet miRNAs: differential expression in coronary artery disease and associations with course of left ventricular systolic function
Creators: name: Goldschmied, Andreas
name: Drotleff, Bernhard
name: Winter, Stefan
name: Schaeffeler, Elke
name: Schwab, Matthias
name: Gawaz, Meinrad
name: Geisler, Tobias
name: Rath, Dominik
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary table 2: Significantly altered miRNAs and suggested cardiovascular effects
Systematic Study on Fluorine-doping Dependence of Superconducting and Normal State Properties in LaFePO1-xFx
Creators: name: Suzuki, S.
name: Miyasaka, S.
name: Tajima, S.
name: Kida, T.
name: Hagiwara, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the fluorine-doping dependence of lattice constants, transports and specific heat for polycrystalline LaFePO1-xFx. F doping slightly and monotonically decreases the in-plane lattice parameter. In the normal state, electrical resistivity at low temperature is proportional to the square of temperature and the electronic specific heat coefficient has large value, indicating the existence of moderate electron-electron correlation in this system. Hall coefficient has large magnitude, and shows large temperature dependence, indicating the low carrier density and multiple carriers in this system. Temperature dependence of the upper critical field suggests that the system is a two gap superconductor. The F-doping dependence of these properties in this system are very weak, while in the FeAs system (LaFeAsO), the F doping induces the large changes in electronic properties. This difference is probably due to the different F-doping dependence of the lattice in these two systems. It has been revealed that a pure effect of electron doping on electronic properties is very weak in this Fe pnictide compound.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in J. Phys. Soc. Jpn
Women’s Associations in Cotopaxi, Ecuador from Rights to Agroecological Markets
Creators: name: Borja, R.
name: Blare, T.
name: Reimao, M.
name: Padilla, G.
name: Oyarzun, P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Farm Management
subject: Collective action
subject: Farmer's associations
subject: gender
subject: smallholders
subject: rural development

description: Smallholder, indigenous farmers play a key role in the food system in Ecuador, applying traditional farming practices that ensure the sustainability of their food production and meeting the dietary demands of many urban consumers, especially for organic vegetables and dairy products. This study examines the position of six women’s associations in the central Ecuadorian Andes, discussing their evolution from rights-based to market-oriented organizations producing and selling agroecological products. We discuss how the history of these associations has led them to play a role in local politics and national policies around agriculture and highlight how these organizations have succeeded both economically and socially, while also noting the challenges they face, as observed by themselves and outsiders. While the history of women’s agroecological production organizations in Ecuador may be unique, as it is entrenched in indigenous rights movements, our results also point to opportunities and obstacles that are more common across small scale farmers and deserve attention from both policymakers and agricultural organizations.
The 503nm pigment of Escherichia coli: properties and function
Creators: name: Kamitakahara-Pearlstone, Joyce Reiko
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The streptomycin (Sm)-dependent mutants of four Escherichia coli strains (known to be catabolite-repression negative) were found to have a 25-35% lower aerobic efficiency (yield of protein from glucose) than the parent wild-type organisms. A non-dependent revertant derived from the Sm-dependent mutant of JE. coli B was also lower in efficiency. In contrast, the anaerobic protein yields (although lower than that from aerobic growth) were identical for both types of cells. In both wild-type and mutant strains the glucose-reduced/peroxide-oxidized difference spectra of whole cells showed the same content of cytochromes and flavin. However, Sm-dependent strains lacked the 503nm pigment which was present in all wild-type strains. These observations suggested that the 503nm pigment (P503) (of previously unknown function) might play a role in energy metabolism. Addition of gluconate to air-oxidized cells produced the P503 peak prior to the appearance of cytochrome and flavin absorption bands. Addition of succinate, glycerol, lactate or acetate produced cytochrome and flavin spectra but not P503. Addition of the amino acid L-methionine to air-oxidized cells elicited the P503 band rapidly but the other components of the difference spectrum did not appear until later. No other amino acid tested had this specific effect on P503. When wild-type cells were grown on limiting glucose-salts medium containing 2,4-dinitrophenol (500 µM) , the yield of cell protein was decreased and formation of P503 was inhibited. Also, growth under these conditions resulted in derepressed levels of fumarase, aconitase and, unexpectedly, glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase. From these observations the general hypothesis was developed that P503 participates in an oxidative energy-yielding pathway in which the initial substrate is reduced nicotinamide adenine triphosphate (NADPH) , (the first product of gluconate metabolism in glucose-grown E. coli). The synthesis of P503 was observed with glucose or gluconate as carbon source. Less P503 was synthesized when succinate, glycerol or lactate was the carbon source, in which cases generation of NADPH would be less efficient. When L-methionine was present in medium containing glucose as carbon source, the synthesis of P503 was inhibited. Other amino acids did not inhibit synthesis of P503. The unique response of P503 to methionine suggests regulation of the pigment by this amino acid. In agreement with observations of other investigators, P503 was found to be transient and labile, and could not be detected in cells which had been frozen and thawed or in cell extracts.
Near-IR Subwavelength Microdisk Lasers
Creators: name: Song, Q.
name: Cao, H.
name: Ho, S. T.
name: Solomon, G. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report single-mode lasing in subwavelength GaAs disks under optical pumping. The disks are fabricated by standard photolithography and two steps of wet chemical etching. The simple fabrication method can produce submicron disks with good circularity, smooth boundary and vertical sidewalls. The smallest lasing disks have a diameter of 627 nm and thickness of 265 nm. The ratio of the disk diameter to the vacuum lasing wavelength is about 0.7. Our numerical simulations confirm that the lasing modes are whispering-gallery modes with the azimuthal number as small as 4 and very small mode volume.
description: 12pages 4figures
Supplementary document for Development of all-solid-state air-cooled high power blue diode laser for metal processing. - 6555899.pdf
Creators: name: Devara, Jayant
name: Jakhar, Sandeep
name: Sihag, Yateendra
name: Panda, Biswajit
name: Venkatesan, Ananth
name: Singh, Kamal
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The supplemental document contain 2 figures
title: Ολοκληρωμένο σχέδιο δράσης σχολής γονέων Οργανισμών Τοπικής Αυτοδιοίκησης (ΟΤΑ)
title: Study of integrated action plan for parenting schools of Local Government Organizations
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ζάχου, Ευτυχία
name: Πασχέντη, Λαμπρινή
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2024
Subjects: Σχολές γονέων
Ομάδες γονέων
Ανάγκες γονέων
Γονεϊκή υποστήριξη
Σχέδιο δράσης
Δήμος Ιλίου
Parenting schools
Parenting groups
Parental needs
Parental support
Action plan
Municipality of Ilion

description: Η παρούσα εργασία συμπληρωματικά με την διπλωματική εργασία “Πρότυπη μελέτη οργάνωσης & λειτουργίας Σχολής Γονέων σε Οργανισμούς Τοπικής Αυτοδιοίκησης (Ο.Τ.Α.)” αποτελούν μέρη ενός συνολικού έργου που μελετά την οργάνωση και τη λειτουργία Σχολών Γονέων σε Οργανισμούς Τοπικής Αυτοδιοίκησης.
description: Η οικογένεια, ως θεμελιώδης θεσμός της κοινωνίας, διαδραματίζει καθοριστικό ρόλο στην ανάπτυξη και την ευημερία των παιδιών. Οι γονείς, ως οι πρώτοι εκπαιδευτές και φροντιστές των παιδιών τους, οφείλουν να καλλιεργούν ένα περιβάλλον αγάπης, ασφάλειας και υποστήριξης, στο οποίο τα παιδιά θα μπορούν να αναπτυχθούν σωματικά, συναισθηματικά, κοινωνικά και πνευματικά, εξελισσόμενα σε υγιείς, ευτυχισμένους και υπεύθυνους πολίτες. Ωστόσο, η αποστολή αυτή των γονέων κρίνεται απαιτητική και πολύπλοκη, αν αναλογιστεί κανείς τις συνεχόμενες αλλαγές που συνοδεύουν την ανάπτυξη των παιδιών και τις συνακόλουθες προκλήσεις που οι γονείς αντιμετωπίζουν. Συνεπώς, καθίσταται αναγκαία η διαρκής μάθηση και υποστήριξη των γονέων σε θέματα γονεϊκότητας, προκειμένου να είναι σε θέση να ανταποκρίνονται αποτελεσματικότερα στις διαρκώς μεταβαλλόμενες συνθήκες. Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία εστιάζει στις δράσεις πρόληψης και συμβουλευτικής που παρέχουν οι Σχολές Γονέων, εξερευνώντας τον ρόλο τους στην ενίσχυση της γονεϊκότητας και της οικογενειακής ευημερίας. Στο πρώτο μέρος της εργασίας εξετάζεται ο πολυδιάστατος ρόλος των γονέων, η αναγκαιότητα εκπαίδευσής τους και η επακόλουθη ίδρυση και λειτουργία των Σχολών Γονέων. Το δεύτερο μέρος περιλαμβάνει τα ευρήματα της ποσοτικής έρευνας που διεξήχθη με στόχο την ανίχνευση των αντιλήψεων και αναγκών των γονέων στον δήμο Ιλίου αναφορικά με τις υποστηρικτικές δράσεις της Σχολής Γονέων. Τα δεδομένα που συλλέχθησαν από το θεωρητικό και ερευνητικό μέρος αξιοποιήθηκαν στην τρίτη και τελευταία φάση της εργασίας, για την εκπόνηση Σχεδίου Δράσης, που περιλαμβάνει ένα σύνολο δράσεων με πλήρη περιγραφή, πόρους, εμπλεκόμενους, δείκτες αποτίμησης, κινδύνους και χρονοδιάγραμμα υλοποίησης, σχεδιασμένο για την αποτελεσματική λειτουργία Σχολών Γονέων Οργανισμών Τοπικής Αυτοδιοίκησης.
Supplementary document for Broadband optical properties of Ti3C2 MXene revisited - 6656375.pdf
Creators: name: Panova, Daria
name: Tselikov, Gleb
name: Ermolaev, Georgy
name: Syuy, Alexander
name: Zimbovskii, Dmitrii
name: Kapitanova, Olesya
name: Yakubovsky, Dmitry
name: Mazitov, Arslan
name: Kruglov, Ivan
name: Vyshnevyy, Andrey
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1. Figures S1-S5: AFM image and ellipsometry spectra of MXene film, Ti3C2 pseudo-optical constants, EDX spectrum of MXene flakes, first-principles calculations of Ti3C2 optical constants
The sentencing of environmental offences involving non-human environmental entities in the NSW Land and Environment Court
Creators: name: White, Robert
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines the way in which the New South Wales Land and Environment Court (NSWLEC) approaches the task of determining criminal sentences for offenders who breach environmental laws involving non-human environmental entities such as flora and fauna. The project examines a select sample of cases involving environmental crimes that fall within the jurisdiction of the New South Wales Land and Environment Court (NSWLEC). The focus of the enquiry is to determine the nature and scope of specialist knowledge used in sentencing, specifically the unique sentencing regimes and rationale construed and implemented by this Court, with a view to determining whether and how ecocentrism influences the Court's reasoning. The thesis addresses two major questions, namely: (i) How does the NSWLEC identify, assess and quantify harm in regards to nonhuman environmental entities such as trees, landscapes and animals in matters where the harm is deemed serious enough to be prosecuted under criminal law?; and (ii) How does the NSWLEC apportion sentence as part of its role in future deterrence and thereby respond to the damage to, death of, or destruction or degradation of the non-human environmental entity? Each question implies a vital role for the Court in evaluating and elaborating on the seriousness of the harm. While legislation sets the definitions and limits of harm and the available penalties relevant to that harm, it is up to the Court to determine the specific nature of the harm and translate this into an appropriate sentence. The overarching theoretical question that informs the analysis is the way in which the NSWLEC draws upon an ecocentric approach in determining seriousness of harm and seriousness of offence. The thesis examines the reasons given for sentence in cases before the NSWLEC relating to the Native Vegetation Act 2003 (NSW) and the National Parks and Wildlife Act 1974 (NSW) within the temporal scope of decisions published between the years 2000 and 2013. The relevant Acts are selected because they include provisions that refer specifically to harm directed at flora and fauna. Only those cases involving offences committed against or involving non-human environmental victims, specifically flora or fauna come within the scope of this study. The findings reveal that an ecocentric approach informs the Court's view of and response to environmental harm to non-human environmental entities. This is both illuminated and explained in the research, by synthesising (from across the relevant judgments) the most frequent indicia used by the NSWLEC, in assessing the seriousness of the harm and the gravity of the offence, and then distilling these into thematic determinants.
Supplementary document for Broadband optical properties of Ti3C2 MXene revisited - 6781418.pdf
Creators: name: Panova, Daria
name: Tselikov, Gleb
name: Ermolaev, Georgy
name: Syuy, Alexander
name: Zimbovskii, Dmitrii
name: Kapitanova, Olesya
name: Yakubovsky, Dmitry
name: Mazitov, Arslan
name: Kruglov, Ivan
name: Vyshnevyy, Andrey
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Figs. and Notes
The On-orbit Calibrations for the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Creators: name: The Fermi LAT Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on--board the Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope began its on--orbit operations on June 23, 2008. Calibrations, defined in a generic sense, correspond to synchronization of trigger signals, optimization of delays for latching data, determination of detector thresholds, gains and responses, evaluation of the perimeter of the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), measurements of live time, of absolute time, and internal and spacecraft boresight alignments. Here we describe on orbit calibration results obtained using known astrophysical sources, galactic cosmic rays, and charge injection into the front-end electronics of each detector. Instrument response functions will be described in a separate publication. This paper demonstrates the stability of calibrations and describes minor changes observed since launch. These results have been used to calibrate the LAT datasets to be publicly released in August 2009.
description: 60 pages, 34 figures, submitted to Astroparticle Physics
Sequential Desynchronization in Networks of Spiking Neurons with Partial Reset
Creators: name: Kirst, Christoph
name: Geisel, Theo
name: Timme, Marc
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The response of a neuron to synaptic input strongly depends on whether or not it has just emitted a spike. We propose a neuron model that after spike emission exhibits a partial response to residual input charges and study its collective network dynamics analytically. We uncover a novel desynchronization mechanism that causes a sequential desynchronization transition: In globally coupled neurons an increase in the strength of the partial response induces a sequence of bifurcations from states with large clusters of synchronously firing neurons, through states with smaller clusters to completely asynchronous spiking. We briefly discuss key consequences of this mechanism for more general networks of biophysical neurons.
A near-infrared survey of Miras and the distance to the Galactic Centre
Creators: name: Matsunaga, Noriyuki
name: Kawadu, Takahiro
name: Nishiyama, Shogo
name: Nagayama, Takahiro
name: Hatano, Hirofumi
name: Tamura, Motohide
name: Glass, Ian S.
name: Nagata, Tetsuya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the results of a near-infrared survey for long-period variables in a field of view of 20 arcmin by 30 arcmin towards the Galactic Centre (GC). We have detected 1364 variables, of which 348 are identified with those reported in Glass et al. (2001). We present a catalogue and photometric measurements for the detected variables and discuss their nature. We also establish a method for the simultaneous estimation of distances and extinctions using the period-luminosity relations for the JHKs bands. Our method is applicable to Miras with periods in the range 100--350 d and mean magnitudes available in two or more filter bands. While J-band means are often unavailable for our objects because of the large extinction, we estimated distances and extinctions for 143 Miras whose H- and Ks-band mean magnitudes are obtained. We find that most are located at the same distance to within our accuracy. Assuming that the barycentre of these Miras corresponds to the GC, we estimate its distance modulus to be 14.58+-0.02(stat.)+-0.11(syst.) mag, corresponding to 8.24+-0.08(stat.)+-0.42(syst.) kpc. We have assumed the distance modulus to the LMC to be 18.45 mag, and the uncertainty in this quantity is included in the systematic error above. We also discuss the large and highly variable extinction. Its value ranges from 1.5 mag to larger than 4 mag in A(Ks) except towards the thicker dark nebulae and it varies in a complicated way with the line of sight. We have identified mid-infrared counterparts in the Spitzer/IRAC catalogue of Ramirez et al. (2008) for most of our variables and find that they follow rather narrow period-luminosity relations in the 3.6 to 8.0 micrometre wavelength range.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 22 pages (28 tables, 11 figures). Figure 7 and tables 6, 7 and 9 will be published in full online only
Proposal and protocol for the construction of pEF1-ACE2-IGG2-SMAR vector for gene therapy of SARS-CoV-2
Creators: name: Daoyu Zhang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: ACE2-Fc
Prophylatic
Gene Therapy
Chitosan
Gene delivery
ADE
ADCC
CDC

description: The Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, the etiological agent of COVID-19. Utilizes cellular ACE2 receptors for the entry of cells. This receptor binds to the receptor binding motif(RBM) of the SARS-CoV-2 S protein with affinity of around 100nM—comparable to a very high affinity monoclonal antibody. Fusion proteins consisting of the ectodomain of ACE2 fused to the Fc region of a human Antibody have been proven to neutralize the SARS-CoV-2 virus in vitro[1][2], and displayed extended serum half-life and lack of toxicity in-vivo[1][2][3]. In addition, this fusion protein have been proven to significantly attenuate SARS-CoV-2 infection In-Vivo using a murine model[1]. Such recombinant proteins have been proposed as a form of therapeutic for COVID-19 patients.
A membrane theory for circular graphene sheets, based on a hyperelastic material model for large deformations
Creators: name: Höller, Raphael
name: Libisch, Florian
name: Hellmich, Christian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Large deflections relevant for suspended circular graphene sheets with simply supported boundaries are computed by a theory for 2D membranes subjected to several types of vertical axisymmetric forces, based on the principle of virtual power (PVP). Corresponding stress–strain relations are provided in the form of a nonlinear hyperelastic material model for graphene. When approximating the deflections through Fourier series, the PVP yields a nonlinear algebraic system of equations, which is solved by the iterative Newton–Raphson procedure. The new computational efficient method is validated through comparison of the numerical results it provides, with predictions obtained from experimental nanoindentaion measurements.
The Jebsen-Birkhoff theorem in alternative gravity
Creators: name: Faraoni, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the validity, or lack thereof, of the Jebsen-Birkhoff theorem in scalar-tensor theories by generalizing it and regarding the Brans-Dicke-like scalar as effective matter. Both the Jordan and Einstein frames are discussed and an apparent contradiction between static spherical solutions of scalar-tensor gravity and Hawking's theorem on Brans-Dicke black holes is clarified. The results are applied to metric and Palatini f(R) gravity.
description: 10 pages, no figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. D
Low-Energy Universality in Atomic and Nuclear Physics
Creators: name: Platter, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An effective field theory developed for systems interacting through short-range interactions can be applied to systems of cold atoms with a large scattering length and to nucleons at low energies. It is therefore the ideal tool to analyze the universal properties associated with the Efimov effect in three- and four-body systems. In this "progress report", we will discuss recent results obtained within this framework and report on progress regarding the inclusion of higher order corrections associated with the finite range of the underlying interaction.
description: Commissioned article for Few-Body Systems, 47 pp, 16 figs
IGR J16351-5806: another close by Compton-thick AGN
Creators: name: Malizia, A.
name: Bassani, L.
name: Panessa, F.
name: De Rosa, A.
name: Bird, A. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: IGR J16351-5806 has been associated with the Seyfert 2 galaxy ESO 137-G34, having been first reported as a high energy emitter in the third INTEGRAL/IBIS survey. Using a new diagnostic tool based on X-ray column density measurements vs softness ratios, Malizia et al. (2007) identified this source as a candidate Compton thick AGN. In the present work we have analysed combined XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL data of IGR J16351-5806 in order to study its broad band spectrum and investigate its Compton thick nature. The prominent K_alpha fluorescence line around 6.4 keV (EW > 1 keV) together with a flat 2-10 keV spectrum immediately point to a highly obscured source. The overall spectrum can be interpreted in terms of a transmission scenario where some of the high energy radiation is able to penetrate through the thick absorption but a good fit is also obtained using a pure reflection spectrum. An alternative possibility is that of a complex absorption, where two layers of absorbing matter each partially covering the central nucleus are present in IGR J16351-5806. All three scenarios are compatible from a statistical viewpoint and provide reasonable AGN spectral parameters; more importantly all point to a source with an absorbing column greater than 1.5 x 10^24 cm^-2, i.e. to a Compton thick AGN. Because of this heavy obscuration, some extra components which would otherwise be hidden are able to emerge at low energies and can be studied. By providing strong evidence for the Compton thick nature of IGR J16351-5806, we indirectly confirm the validity of the Malizia et al. diagnostic diagram.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. Accepted for pubblication in MNRAS Letters
Optical probing of spin dynamics of two-dimensional and bulk electrons in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction system
Creators: name: Rizo, P. J.
name: Pugzlys, A.
name: Slachter, A.
name: Denega, S. Z.
name: Reuter, D.
name: Wieck, A. D.
name: van Loosdrecht, P. H. M.
name: van der Wal, C. H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present time-resolved Kerr rotation measurements of electron spin dynamics in a GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunction system that contains a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG). Due to the complex layer structure of this material the Kerr rotation signals contain information from electron spins in three different layers: the 2DEG layer, a GaAs epilayer in the heterostructure, and the underlying GaAs substrate. The 2DEG electrons can be observed at low pump intensities, using that they have a less negative g-factor than electrons in bulk GaAs regions. At high pump intensities, the Kerr signals from the GaAs epilayer and the substrate can be distinguished when using a barrier between the two layers that blocks intermixing of the two electron populations. This allows for stronger pumping of the epilayer, which results in a shift of the effective g-factor. Thus, three populations can be distinguished using differences in g-factor. We support this interpretation by studying how the spin dynamics of each population has its unique dependence on temperature, and how they correlate with time-resolved reflectance signals.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures
Rank one perturbations and singular integral operators
Creators: name: Liaw, Constanze
name: Treil, Sergei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A55; 42A50

description: We consider rank one perturbations $A_α=A+α(\cdot,φ)φ$ of a self-adjoint operator $A$ with cyclic vector $φ\in\mathcal H_{-1}(A)$ on a Hilbert space $\mathcal H$. The spectral representation of the perturbed operator $A_α$ is given by a singular integral operator of special form. Such operators exhibit what we call 'rigidity' and are connected with two weight estimates for the Hilbert transform. Also, some results about two weight estimates of Cauchy (Hilbert) transforms are proved. In particular, it is proved that the regularized Cauchy transforms $T_\varepsilon$ are uniformly (in $\varepsilon$) bounded operators from $L^2(μ)$ to $L^2(μ_α)$, where $μ$ and $μ_α$ are the spectral measures of $A$ and $A_α$, respectively. As an application, a sufficient condition for $A_α$ to have a pure absolutely continuous spectrum on a closed interval is given in terms of the density of the spectral measure of $A$ with respect to $φ$. Some examples, like Jacobi matrices and Schrödinger operators with $L^2$ potentials are considered.
description: 24 pages
Discovering source areas of disease outbreaks based on ring-shaped hotspot detection in road network space
Creators: name: Shi, Yan
name: Chen, Yuanfang
name: Deng, Min
name: Xu, Liang
name: Xia, Jiaqin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: The accurate discovery of disease-outbreak source areas plays a critical role in the effective containment of epidemics at an early stage. Existing relevant methods are mostly implemented by tracing the source of disease outbreaks directly from the distribution of confirmed cases in the Euclidean space. In reality, in most respiratory infectious diseases, crowd gathering caused by resident trips significantly increases the risk of exposure to potentially infected persons, making it the driving force behind the outbreak of the disease. In light of this, this study proposes a network-constrained ring-shaped hotspot detection method based on the classical spatial scan statistic model. This new method can be used to determine the sizes of the scanning window in an adaptive manner by using the information of the trip distance distributions. Considering the centered traffic analysis zone in each hotspot as a candidate outbreak source area, a multi-factor coupling model was designed by characterizing both the areal vibrancy and resident trip distributions to further identify the potential disease-outbreak source areas. A case study on the outbreaks of COVID-19 in Wenzhou, China, was carried out to evaluate the practicability and effectiveness of the proposed method. The comparison results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method for detecting areas and sources of outbreaks.
Lifetime of micrometer-sized drops of oil pressed by buoyancy against a planar interface
Creators: name: Rojas, Clara
name: Urbina-Villalba, German
name: Garcia-Sucre, Maximo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Emulsion Stability Simulations (ESS) are used to estimate the coalescence time of one drop of hexadecane pressed by buoyancy against a planar water/hexadecane interface. In the present simulations the homophase is represented by a big drop of oil at least 500 times larger than the approaching drop ($1\,μ$m to $10\,μ$m). Both deformable and non-deformable drops are considered along with six different diffusion tensors. In each case van der Waals, electrostatic, steric and buoyancy forces are taken into account. The coalescence times are estimated as the average of 1000 random walks. It is found that the repulsive potential barrier has a significant influence in the results. The experimental data can only be reproduced assuming negligible repulsive barriers, as well as non-deformable drops that move with a combination of Stokes and Taylor tensors as they approach the interface.
description: 20 pages, 22 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E
Vitamin D supplementation in COVID-19: A friend or foe?
Creators: name: Mansour, Asieh
name: Mohajeri-Tehrani, Mohammad Reza
name: Sajjadi-Jazi, Sayed Mahmoud
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2020
Subjects: vitamin D
COVID-19
ACE2

description: EXCLI Journal; 19:Doc1166; ISSN 1611-2156
Exploring the philosophical approaches underpinning the practice of corporate environmental reporting
Creators: name: Morrison, LJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This study explores the philosophical underpinnings of corporate environmental disclosure from an ethical perspective to deepen the understanding of stakeholder engagement in the reporting process. Concerns regarding stakeholder engagement have been of increasing interest as the demand for different types of information have been made on entities. The degree of cynicism towards these reports indicates that many stakeholders do not believe that entities engage with them in meeting their information needs. This study questions whether there is a gap between corporate reporting and stakeholder engagement. This issue can be explored through the lens of environmental ethics, which describes the approaches used to perceive and interact with the environment. Discourse analysis was adopted firstly to analyse the environmental disclosures of a single case study company, and secondly, to analyse the interview transcripts of a number of representatives of the company's key stakeholder groups in regard to stakeholder engagement and environmental information disclosure. Using discourse analysis, the three predominant branches of environmental ethics (utilitarianism, deontology and virtue ethics) were applied to these bodies of text in order to ascertain the ethical approaches of the case study company and its stakeholders. It was found that a gap existed between the ethical approaches expressed in the case study company's environmental disclosures, and those expressed by external stakeholders. This gap widened as the relationship between the company and the stakeholder became less direct. Stakeholders whose relationship with the company involved internal understandings viewed the environmental interactions and subsequent reports through deontological and utilitarian approaches, corresponding to how these issues were expressed in the disclosures. Considering other environmental issues exclusive of the case study company, a virtue ethics approach was used by all stakeholders. This approach was also used by stakeholders affected on a more personal level, and who also viewed the environmental interaction of the company with a degree of cynicism. Environmental reports require a common language to effectively communicate with stakeholders. This study suggests that the common language of stakeholders is framed in a virtue ethics approach, which diverges from the approach expressed in the company's environmental reports. This study has enhanced our understanding through the application of environmental ethics to stakeholders' engagement and corporate environmental disclosure, and offers a potentially fruitful opportunity for further research.
«Die Zusammenarbeit ist notwendig und gewinnbringend, vorausgesetzt, dass…»
Creators: name: Chiapparini, Emanuela
Publisher: name: (:null)
Year: 2021
Subjects: H Social Sciences (General)
L Education (General)

description: In diesem Vortrag werden Chancen und Herausforderungen der Zusammenarbeit zwischen Schulsozialarbeit und sozialpädagogischen Fachpersonen Tagesstrukturen erörtert. Ausgangspunkte sind theoretische Reflexionen und Forschungsbefunde, die am Beispiel der Tagesstrukturen in Basel-Stadt vorgestellt und diskutiert werden.