cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Understanding fault evolution using numerical models and seismic data observations
Creators: name: Pan, Sophie Wen-Jiao
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Faults form in response to continental extension and are ubiquitous in the Earth’s lithosphere. Our current understanding of normal fault growth is largely derived from geometrical observations of these structures in the Earth’s crust, in particular utilising the relationship between fault length (L) and maximum displacement (D). However, our understanding of the kinematics and timescales of fault growth is relatively poor, as many faults are not associated with age- constrained growth strata that record the timing of fault activity. This has subsequently led to the proposition of different, debated fault growth models. Inheritance, rheology, extension rates and rift obliquity also control rift geometry and kinematics, although it is unclear how these controls work in combination to form their final fault geometry. In this thesis, I investigate the geometric, kinematic, and dynamic relationships of normal faults, using borehole-constrained seismic reflectivity data, and high-resolution 3D forward numerical modelling. First, I constrain the geometrical and kinematic development of a fault network on the Exmouth Plateau, NW of Australia and find that faults establish their near-final lengths within the first 7.2 Myrs. I find that the magnitude of D-L scatter reflects fault maturity, with minor inactive faults exhibiting lower D-L ratios than larger, mature faults. Using numerical models, I also show that fault patterns are established early during rifting, within <100 kyrs of rift initiation, with individual faults exhibiting scaling ratios consistent with those characterising individual earthquake ruptures. With time, these faults growth to exhibit D-L ratios similar to those observed within global D-L datasets. Using these models I show that the behaviour of strain accumulation is highly transient, migrating along- and across- strike due to competing stress interactions. The distribution of strain accommodated by the fault network is best described by a gamma scaling law, indicating that small to moderate faults are power law scaling, but that large faults are bound to a characteristic upper limit. Rheological factors, such as the distribution of initial strain and strain weakening, exert the biggest control on fault patterns. My research has provided an improved quantification and characterisation of the kinematics and timescales of normal faulting, and the role played by various rift parameters. My work may allow for future inversion of rift parameters using fault network observations alone.
Dottrine politiche, concetti, comunità di discorso In dialogo con Merio Scattola
Creators: name: Basso, Michele
name: Piccinini, Mario
Publisher: name: Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Year: 2020
Subjects: SPS/01 Filosofia politica
SPS/02 Storia delle dottrine politiche

description: Il quaderno raccoglie la rielaborazione dei materiali di due convegni dedicati a tematiche della ricerca di Merio Scattola, svoltisi presso l’Università degli Studi di Padova con il supporto del Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell’Antichità, del Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Letterari e il patrocinio della Scuola Galileiana di Studi Superiori. Vengono qui pubblicati i contributi di José Luis Villacañas, Giuseppe Duso, Michele Basso, Adone Brandalise, Angela De Benedictis, Maurizio Merlo, Luise Schorn-Schütte, Paolo Slongo, Alfredo Viggiano. Il quaderno si chiude con un breve ma significativo ricordo di Merio da parte di Michael Stolleis. Lo scopo è quello di continuare il dialogo con Merio su alcune questioni interdisciplinari che a lungo sono state oggetto di comune ri-cerca. La nota introduttiva a cura di Michele Basso e Mario Piccinini enuncia le ragioni di fondo della scelta dei temi e dell’approccio prescelto. Si ringraziano per la collaborazione Marco Geuna, Claudia Passarella, Paolo Scotton e Antonio Staude
Thermal local quantum uncertainty in a two-qubit-superconducting system under decoherence
Creators: name: Pourkarimi, M. R.
name: Haddadi, S.
name: Nashaat, M.
name: Kulikov, K. V.
name: Shukrinov, Yu. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By considering the local quantum uncertainty (LQU) as a measure of quantum correlations, the thermal evolution of a two-qubit-superconducting system is investigated. We show that the thermal LQU can be increased by manipulating the Hamiltonian parameters such as the mutual coupling and Josephson energies, however, it undergoes sudden transitions at specific temperatures. Furthermore, a detailed analysis is presented regarding the impact of decohering channels on thermal LQU. This controllable LQU in engineering applications can disclose the advantage enabled in the superconducting charge qubits for designing quantum computers and quantum batteries.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures. All comments are welcome
Spectral Functions in V-QCD with Matter: Masses, Susceptibilities, Diffusion and Conductivity
Creators: name: Iatrakis, Ioannis
name: Zahed, Ismail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a holographic model of QCD in the Veneziano limit of a large number of colors $N_c$ and flavors $N_f$ but fixed $x=N_f/N_c$ (V-QCD). The model exhibits a first order deconfined but chirally broken transition, followed by a second order chirally restored transition in the $μ-T$ plane for a range of plausible holographic parameters. We study the quasi-normal mode spectrum, and derive the pertinent vector and axial spectral functions across the transition regions. The pole masses, susceptibilities, diffusion constants and electric conductivity are also discussed. In particular, the pole masses are found to survive the deconfining transition, to quickly dissolve in the the chirally restored phase by developing substantial widths. The flavor electric conductivities arise sharply in the transition region. The flavor susceptibility is shown to be consistent with the one derived from bulk thermodynamics.
description: 36 pages, 10 figures
Neural indicators of emotion regulation via acceptance vs reappraisal in remitted major depressive disorder
Creators: name: Keng, Shian-Ling
name: Minkel, Jared
name: Ji, Jie Lisa
name: Moore, Tyler
name: Dichter, Gabriel S.
name: Smoski, Moria J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Mood disorders are characterized by impaired emotion regulation abilities, reflected in alterations in frontolimbic brain functioning during regulation. However, little is known about differences in brain function when comparing regulatory strategies. Reappraisal and emotional acceptance are effective in downregulating negative affect, and are components of effective depression psychotherapies. Investigating neural mechanisms of reappraisal vs emotional acceptance in remitted major depressive disorder (rMDD) may yield novel mechanistic insights into depression risk and prevention. Thirty-seven individuals (18 rMDD, 19 controls) were assessed during a functional magnetic resonance imaging task requiring reappraisal, emotional acceptance or no explicit regulation while viewing sad images. Lower negative affect was reported following reappraisal than acceptance, and was lower following acceptance than no explicit regulation. In controls, the acceptance > reappraisal contrast revealed greater activation in left insular cortex and right prefrontal gyrus, and less activation in several other prefrontal regions. Compared with controls, the rMDD group had greater paracingulate and right midfrontal gyrus (BA 8) activation during reappraisal relative to acceptance. Compared with reappraisal, acceptance is associated with activation in regions linked to somatic and emotion awareness, although this activation is associated with less reduction in negative affect. Additionally, a history of MDD moderated these effects.
Structure and Stress: Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms across Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Creators: name: Elder, G. H.
name: Wang, V.
name: van den Oord, E. J. C. G.
name: Dupre, M. E.
name: Adkins, D. E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Previous research into the social distribution of early life depression has yielded inconsistent results regarding subgroup differences in depression levels and in the etiology of these differences. Using latent curve models and data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study investigates gender and racial/ethnic disparities in early life depressive symptoms and the explanatory roles of stress and socioeconomic status (SES). Results show that females and minorities experience higher levels of depressive symptoms across early life compared to males and Whites. Further, childhood SES and stressful life events (SLEs) explain much of the disparity for Blacks and Hispanics. Finally, Blacks, Hispanics, and females show greater sensitivity to the effects of low childhood SES and, in the case of females, SLEs. Overall, this study provides new insight into gender and racial/ethnic differences in the course of early life depression and in the role of the stress process during this important developmental stage.
Surveillance écologique du site de production électronucléaire de Gravelines Novembre 2011– Octobre 2012
Creators: name: Antajan, Elvire
name: Hervio Heath, Dominique
name: Lefebvre, Alain
name: Loots, Christophe
name: Luczak, Christophe
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Centrale nucléaire
subject: Gravelines
subject: Surveillance
subject: Hydrologie
subject: Halieutique
subject: Plancton
subject: Benthos
subject: Microbiologie
subject: Nuclear power plant
subject: Network survey
subject: Hydrology
subject: Fisheries
subject: Plankton
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: This is the 35th annual surveillance report concerning the nuclear power plant of Gravelines. Its very high power level results from six plant units located on the shore and is characterised by a cooling system with a coastal surface input and output. The production of electricity began in 1980 and reached maximum in 1986. Surveys concern monitoring of pelagic system (hydrology, microbiology, phytoplankton, and zooplankton), fish populations (larvae and eggs of Sole and Sprat) or crustaceans (shrimps), and benthic macrofauna (intertidal and subtidal). This survey deals with spatial and temporal approaches (i) study of the direct impact by comparison of the input and output seawater stations, (ii) study of medium and long term evolution of the area by comparison with a reference station.
description: Ce travail constitue le 35e rapport de surveillance du site électronucléaire de Gravelines dont la grande puissance énergétique est assurée par le fonctionnement de 6 tranches. Ce site, implanté sur le littoral, présente une prise d’eau de mer assurant le refroidissement du système et un rejet côtier d’eau chaude en surface. Le fonctionnement de la centrale a débuté en 1980 et elle a atteint la puissance maximale en 1986. La surveillance concerne les domaines pélagique (hydrologie, microbiologie, phytoplancton, zooplancton), halieutique (larves et œufs de Sole, de Sprat et crevettes grises), et benthique (intertidal et subtidal). La stratégie de surveillance est basée sur une approche spatiale et temporelle (i) Etude de l’impact immédiat par comparaison de la station « Prise d’eau » et de la station « Canal de rejet » sur une surface limitée (ii) Etude de l’évolution à moyen ou à long terme du milieu marin par rapport à une situation de référence (échelle locale).
Los fondos del AHN en el proyecto ERC: La vida secreta de la escritura
Creators: name: Castro Correa, Ainoa
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Paleography
Palaeography
Manuscript Studies
Medieval History
Visigothic script

description: Presentation and draft text of the talk presented at the I Ciclo de conferencias de divulgación de la Asociación de Amigos del Archivo Histórico Nacional. Tinta, papel y pergamino: el pasado en sus documentos.
Perpendicular electronic transport and moiré-induced resonance in twisted interfaces of three-dimensional graphite
Creators: name: Tani, Tenta
name: Kawakami, Takuto
name: Koshino, Mikito
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the perpendicular electrical conductivity in twisted three-dimensional graphite (rotationally stacked graphite pieces) by using the effective continuum model and the recursive Green's function method. In the low twist angle regime $(θ\lesssim 2^\circ)$, the conductivity shows a nonmonotonic dependence with a peak and dip structure as a function of the twist angle. By analyzing the momentum-resolved conductance and the local density of states, this behavior is attributed to the Fano resonance between continuum states of bulk graphite and interface-localized states, which is a remnant of the flat band in the magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene. We also apply the formulation to the high-angle regime near the commensurate angle $θ\approx 21.8^\circ$, and reproduce the conductance peak observed in the experiment.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures
Roots, Schottky semigroups, and a proof of Bandt's Conjecture
Creators: name: Calegari, Danny
name: Koch, Sarah
name: Walker, Alden
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In 1985, Barnsley and Harrington defined a ``Mandelbrot Set'' $\mathcal{M}$ for pairs of similarities --- this is the set of complex numbers $z$ with $0
description: 66 pages, 27 figures
A General Panel Model with Random and Fixed Effects: A Structural Equations Approach
Creators: name: Brand, J. E.
name: Bollen, K. A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Fixed and random effects models for longitudinal data are common in sociology. Their primary advantage is that they control for time-invariant omitted variables. However, analysts face several issues when they employ these models. One is the uncertainty of whether to apply the fixed effects (FEM) versus the random effects (REM) models. Another less discussed issue is that the FEM and REM models as usually implemented might be insufficiently flexible. For instance, the effects of variables, including the latent time-invariant variable, might change over time rather than be constant as in the usual FEM and REM. The latent time-invariant variable might correlate with some variables and not others. Lagged endogenous variables might be necessary. Alternatives that move beyond the classic FEM and REM models are known, but they involve different estimators and software that make these extended models difficult to implement and to compare. This paper presents a general panel model that includes the standard FEM and REM as special cases. In addition, it provides a sequence of nested models that provide a richer range of models that researchers can easily compare with likelihood ratio tests and fit statistics. Furthermore, researchers can implement our general panel model and its special cases in widely available structural equation models (SEMs) software. The paper is oriented towards applied researchers with most technical details given in the appendix and footnotes. An extended empirical example illustrates our results.
Higher Education and Religious Liberalization among Young Adults
Creators: name: Uecker, J. E.
name: Mayrl, D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Going to college has long been assumed to liberalize students’ religious beliefs. Using longitudinal data from the National Survey of Youth and Religion, we compare change in the content of religious beliefs of those who do and do not attend college. We find that, in general, college students are no more likely to develop liberal religious beliefs than nonstudents. In some cases, collegians actually appear more likely to retain their initial beliefs. Change in religious beliefs appears instead to be more strongly associated with network effects. These findings indicate that college’s effect on students’ religious beliefs is both weak and fragmented, and suggest that the multiplicity of social worlds on college campuses may help to sustain religious beliefs as well as religious practice and commitment.
Impedance model analysis and measurement for power system stability
Creators: name: Zhu, Yue
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2022

description: Electric power systems are transforming from synchronous machine (SG) dominated systems to composite grids in which inverter-based resources (IBRs) coexist with SGs. The lack of standardisation of IBRs leads vendors to treat their control algorithms as commercial secrets and they are willing to disclose only black-box models that give input-output relationships but no internal details. An impedance model spectrum is commonly put forward as a black-box model useful for stability analysis. Several types of impedance models have been proposed to represent the dynamic characteristics of a complete power networks. A study is undertaken to compare two types of networked impedance models: those based on direct nodal or loop analysis and those based on a whole-system formulation. The underlying relationship between eigenvalues of the impedance matrix and the oscillatory modes of the network for both model types have been unclear but are resolved here and the relative merits of the models are established. Through examining eigenvalue sensitivity, a proposal is made for an impedance participation factor that can identify root-causes of low damping. It is proved that the impedance participation factor is related to the classic state-space participation via a chain-rule relationship. Based on the chain-rule, a grey-box approach is developed as a generic method for root-cause tracing in impedance models. It has three degrees of transparency according to the available information and they are aggregated participation, damping contribution, and key parameters. The grey-box approach can indicate appropriate re-tuning of parameters that would shift the oscillatory mode in a desired direction in complex plain so as to stabilise the system. The theoretical contributions are verified through three different scales of case study: a simple three-node passive circuit, a modified IEEE 14-bus system and a modified NETS-NYPS 68-bus system. A significant advantage of using an impedance model is that the model can, in principle, be measured online with injection of a small-signal perturbation. However, a vital issue of concern is error caused by noise in the measured signals since this will determine the magnitude of injected perturbation required and the practicality of arranging that. To address this issue, a noise analysis process for impedance measurement is proposed in this thesis, from which guidance on selecting an appropriate injection magnitude can be provided. To verify the proposed analysis process, a power-hardware-in-the-loop system is built where a high-bandwidth power amplifier (OP1400 series) is used to inject the perturbation. The theoretical developments and noise analysis presented in this thesis combine to offer stability analysis and root-cause tracing of the type normally found only in white box state-space models but here are available in models built from equipment manufacturers' black-box models or from measurement-based models.
Forschungsorientierung und Berufsbezug: Studiengangentwicklung mit dem "Zürcher Framework"
Creators: name: Tremp, Peter
name: Hildbrand, Thomas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Das „Zürcher Framework“ – vor einigen Jahren für forschungsintensive Universitäten entwickelt – konkretisiert das universitäre Postulat der Verknüpfung von Lehre und Forschung. Dabei argumentiert das „Framework“ aus didaktischer Sicht auf drei Ebenen: Auf der Ebene einzelner Lehrveranstaltungen, auf der Ebene von Studienprogrammen und auf der Ebene der Universität als Bildungseinrichtung (ausführliche Darstellung in Tremp&Hildbrand 2012). Das „Framework“ bildet also seinem Namen gemäss tatsächlich Gerüst und Rahmen, der dazu dient, Zusammenhänge, die in ihrer Gesamtheit schwer zu fassen sind, vereinfacht ins Bild zu setzen. Es schafft Überblick und erlaubt Einblicke in komplexe Zusammenhänge.
description: +repphzhbib2018F
Single crystal synthesis, structure, and magnetism of Pb$_{10-x}$Cu$_x$(PO$_4$)$_6$O
Creators: name: Puphal, P.
name: Akbar, M. Y. P.
name: Hepting, M.
name: Goering, E.
name: Isobe, M.
name: Nugroho, A. A.
name: Keimer, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent claim of superconductivity above room temperature in Pb$_{10-x}$Cu$_x$(PO$_4$)$_6$O with 0.9 < $x$ < 1 (referred to as LK-99) has sparked considerable interest. To minimize the influence of structural defects and impurity phases on the physical properties, we have synthesized phase-pure single crystals with $x \sim 1$. We find that the crystals are highly insulating and optically transparent. X-ray analysis reveals an uneven distribution of the substituted Cu throughout the sample. Temperature ($T$) dependent magnetization measurements for $ 2 \leq T \leq 800$ K reveal the diamagnetic response characteristic of a non-magnetic insulator, as well as a small ferromagnetic component, possibly originating from frustrated exchange interactions in Cu-rich clusters in the Pb$_{10-x}$Cu$_x$(PO$_4$)$_6$O structure. No anomalies indicative of phase transitions are observed. We therefore rule out the presence of superconductivity in Pb$_{9}$Cu(PO$_4$)$_6$O crystals, and provide some considerations on the origin of anomalies previously reported in experiments on polycrystalline specimen.
Les virus des crevettes pénéides tropicales. 1ère partie : Symptomatologie-Epidémiologie, Diagnostic sur le terrain, Diagnostic histologique
Creators: name: Weppe, Maurice
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 1990
Subjects: peneides
virus
epidemiologie
histologie

description: Ce rapport fait le point sur nos connaissances, et les résultats des expérimentations menées au COP sur les virus des pénéides. Sont également inclus des détails sur les méthodes de diagnostic sur le terrain ainsi que les conseils pour l'expédition de matériel vers les laboratoires de diagnostic.
Science Brief of the RIVEAL Project - How river regulation and climate change affects the fluvial ecosystems and its ecosystem services.
Creators: name: Rivaes, R.
name: Aguiar, F. C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: River regulation
Climate change
Ecosystem services
Environmental filtering
Aquatic macroinvertebrates
Riparian vegetation
Macrophytes
Diatoms
Bryophytes
Algae
River habitat degradation
Environmental attitude

description: Science Brief with the final results of the RIVEAL Project
Fra Troia e la Tavola Rotonda: La vendetta dei discendenti di Ettore, pastiche tre-quattrocentesco
Creators: name: D'Agostino, Alfonso
Publisher: name: Bisanzio e l'Occidente
Year: 2018

description: The Vendetta dei discendenti di Ettore is an anonymous and quaint literary pastiche, still unpublished, which blends the Trojan tradition with the Arthurian one. It was likely written between the end of the XIV and the beginning of the XV century, possibly in Lucca, before the Croniche by Giovanni Sercambi, who seems to have drawn inspiration from it in some brief chapters. It stages a kind of world war that involves, more than a thousand six hundred years after the fall of Troy, the descendants of Hector and the father of king Arthur, Uter Pendragon, joined by other knights of the Round Table and supported by Romans and Persians in a mission to exact revenge on Greeks and the new Greeks (the Byzantines). The text, probably inspired by the Roman de Perceforest, and always indebted to Wace’s Brut, singer of the translatio imperii, stages an epic clash between culture and nature, barbarism and civilization, employing a narrative rhythm sometimes unlikely and almost dreamlike, set in a kind of parallel universe rich in contradictions that can be interpreted using Matte Blanco’s bi-logic. These notable features let us forget the humble literary quality of the text.
description: Bisanzio e l'Occidente, V. 1 (2018)
The Social Structuring of Mental Health over the Adult Life Course: Advancing Theory in the Sociology of Aging
Creators: name: House, J.
name: Lantz, P.
name: Marshall, V.
name: Clarke, P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The sociology of aging draws on a broad array of theoretical perspectives from several disciplines, but rarely has it developed its own. We build on past work to advance and empirically test a model of mental health framed in terms of structural theorizing and situated within the life course perspective. Whereas most prior research has been based on cross-sectional data, we utilize four waves of data from a nationally representative sample of American adults (Americans' Changing Lives Study) collected prospectively over a 15-year period and find that education, employment and marital status, as well as their consequences for income and health, effectively explain the increase in depressive symptoms after age 65. We also found significant cohort differences in age trajectories of mental health that were partly explained by historical increases in education. We demonstrate that a purely structural theory can take us far in explaining later life mental health.
A transport inequality on the sphere obtained by mass transport
Creators: name: Cordero-Erausquin, Dario
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Using McCann's transportation map, we establish a transport inequality on compact manifolds with positive Ricci curvature. This inequality contains the sharp spectral comparison estimates.
description: published with minor changes in Pacific J. of Math
Status Configurations, Military Service and Higher Education
Creators: name: Wang, L.
name: Spence, N. J.
name: Elder, G. H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The U.S. Armed Forces offer educational and training benefits as incentives for service. This study investigates the influence of status configurations on military enlistment and their link to greater educational opportunity. Three statuses (socioeconomic status of origin, cognitive ability and academic performance) have particular relevance for life course options. We hypothesize that young men with inconsistent statuses are more likely to enlist than men with consistent status profiles, and that military service improves access to college for certain configurations. Analyses of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) show (1. that several status configurations markedly increased the likelihood of military enlistment and (2. within status configurations, recruits were generally more likely to enroll in higher education than nonveterans, with associate degrees being more likely.
Assessing the Significance of Cohort and Period Effects in Hierarchical Age-Period-Cohort Models: Applications to Verbal Test Scores and Voter Turnout in U.S. Presidential Elections
Creators: name: Land, K. C.
name: Yang, Y. C.
name: Frenk, S. M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: In recently developed hierarchical age-period-cohort (HAPC) models, inferential questions arise: How can one assess or judge the significance of estimates of individual cohort and period effects in such models? And how does one assess the overall statistical significance of the cohort and/or the period effects? Beyond statistical significance is the question of substantive significance. This paper addresses these questions. In the context of empirical applications of linear and generalized linear mixed-model specifications of HAPC models using data on verbal test scores and voter turnout in U.S. presidential elections, respectively, we describe a two-step approach and a set of guidelines for assessing statistical significance. The guidelines include assessments of patterns of effects and statistical tests both for the effects of individual cohorts and time periods as well as for entire sets of cohorts and periods. The empirical applications show strong evidence that trends in verbal test scores are primarily cohort driven, while voter turnout is primarily a period phenomenon.
An Implementation of Web Services for Inter-Connectivity of Information Systems
Creators: name: Chandio, Aftab Ahmed
name: Zhu, Dingju
name: Sodhro, Ali Hassan
name: Syed, Muhammad Umer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: As educational institutions and their departments rapidly increase, a communication between their end-users becomes more and more difficult in traditional online management systems (OMS). However, the end-users, i.e., employees, teaching staff, and students are associated to different sub-domains and using different subsystems that are executed on different platforms following different administrative policies. Because of their intercommunication is not automated integrated, consequently, the overall efficiency of the system is degraded and the communication time is increased. Therefore, a technique for better interoperability and automated integration of departments is an urgent needed. Many of existing systems does not have a set of connections yet, such as the system of the University of Sindh (UoS). In this paper, we propose a system for the UoS, named integration of inter-connectivity of information system (i3) based on service oriented architecture (SOA) with web services. The system i3 monitors and exchanges the students information in support of verification along heterogeneous and decentralized nature. Moreover, the proposed system provides capability of interoperability between their subsystems that are deployed in different departments of UoS and using different programming languages and database management systems (DBMS)
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, (Accepted for the Int. J. Com. Dig. Sys. Vol. 3, No. 3, ISSN. 2210-142X)
Стратегические приоритеты, цели и задачи развития лесопромышленного комплекса республики Башкортостан до 2030 года
Creators: name: Гамилова Д.А.
name: Котов Д.В.
name: Алексеева Э.Р.
name: Качалкина К.Г.
name: Нагимова А.З.
name: Исангужин И.М.
name: Кулагин А.Ю.
Publisher: name: Самарская Лука: проблемы региональной и глобальной экологии
Year: 2018
Subjects: СТРАТЕГИЯ РАЗВИТИЯ
РЫНКИ ЛЕСОПРОДУКЦИИ
РЕСПУБЛИКА БАШКОРТОСТАН
ПРОЕКТЫ РАЗВИТИЯ
ЦЕЛЕВЫЕ ПОКАЗАТЕЛИ

description: В статье дано обобщенное описание результатов разработки Стратегии развития лесопромышленного комплекса Республики Башкортостан до 2030 года. Представленные материалы отражают аналитические результаты по исследуемому виду деятельности в сравнении с регионами ПФО, оценку рыночных трендов в разрезе продуктов. Стратегический выбор приоритетов представлен через определение ключевых развилок развития, что позволяет формализовать проекты, определить целевые показатели и дать оценку совокупного влияния проектов на состояние лесопромышленного комплекса республики.
Compendium Factsheets and Science Brief of the RIVEAL Project
Creators: name: Aguiar, F.C.
name: Rivaes, R.
name: Fernandes, M.R.
name: Correia, A.
name: Martins, M.J.
name: Schmidt, L.
name: Delicado, A.
name: Couto, J.S.
name: Feio, M.J.
name: Calapez, A.R.
name: Almeida, S.
name: Mortágua, A.
name: Segurado, P.
name: Vieira, C.
name: Gebler, D.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: RIVEAL project
Factsheets
Science Brief
River regulation
Riparian vegetation
Macrophytes
Bryophytes
Macroalgae
Diatoms
Macroinvertebrates
Ecosystem services
Climate change

description: Compendium of the factsheets and science brief of the RIVEAL project
Geroch Group Description of Black Holes
Creators: name: Chakrabarty, Bidisha
name: Virmani, Amitabh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: On one hand the Geroch group allows one to associate spacetime independent matrices with gravitational configurations that effectively only depend on two coordinates. This class includes stationary axisymmetric four- and five-dimensional black holes. On the other hand, a recently developed inverse scattering method allows one to factorize these matrices to explicitly construct the corresponding spacetime configurations. In this work we demonstrate the construction as well as the factorization of Geroch group matrices for a wide class of black hole examples. In particular, we obtain the Geroch group SL(3,R) matrices for the five-dimensional Myers-Perry and Kaluza-Klein black holes and the Geroch group SU(2,1) matrix for the four-dimensional Kerr-Newman black hole. We also present certain non-trivial relations between the Geroch group matrices and charge matrices for these black holes.
description: 29 pages, no figures; v2: references added; v3: minor changes, matches published version
And yet it moves: a high-temperature neutron diffraction study of ion diffusion in the inverse perovskites BaLiX3 (X = F, H, D)
Creators: name: Wiedemann, Dennis
name: Heppke, Eva Maria
name: Franz, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 548 Kristallografie
subject: 546 Anorganische Chemie
subject: diffusion pathway
subject: fluoride-hydride analogy
subject: neutron diffraction
subject: one-particle potential
subject: perovskite phases

description: Despite the interest in (anti‐)perovskites and diverse hydrides as hydride conductors and all‐solid‐state battery materials, little experimental evidence on anion diffusion in these compounds is available. Herein, we use neutron diffraction at high temperatures to discover pathways and estimate activation barriers of anion migration in mechanosynthesized powders of BaLiF3, BaLiH3, and BaLiD3. We critically assess the limitations of both current methods for deriving effective one‐particle potentials (i.e., via modelling of the probability‐density function and via maximum‐entropy reconstruction of the scatterer density). The suggested migration pathways run roughly along the edges of the LiX6 octahedra with activation energies of 0.45(3), ca. 0.41, and less than 1.44(3) eV in BaLiD3, BaLiH3, and BaLiF3, respectively. Not only is this the first determination of diffusion barriers in these hydrides but also the second study providing any comparative data on the two methods of derivation.
Valorisation des données de la surveillance DCE. Synthèse des données du suivi chimique « Biote » (2008- 2011). Masses d’eau côtières et de transition du bassin Adour-Garonne
Creators: name: Trut, Gilles
name: Gouriou, Laure
name: Auby, Isabelle
name: Rigouin, Loic
name: Barbier, Claire
name: Oger-Jeanneret, Helene
Publisher: name: ifremer
Year: 2013

description: Ce rapport présente les données récentes sur les contaminants chimiques dans les masses d’eaux côtières et de transition du district Adour-Garonne, acquises dans le cadre de la DCE (mesures dans les mollusques, chaque année entre 2008 et 2011). Les valeurs obtenues sont comparées aux valeurs de référence disponibles (NQE biote, seuils OSPAR, QS, normes sanitaires), afin de statuer sur la qualité chimique des masses d’eau du Bassin
Biocénoses des fonds durs du bathyal et de l’abyssal / SRM MO
Creators: name: Fabri, Marie-Claire
name: Pedel, Laura
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2012

description: Fiche de synthèse sur les biocénoses de substrats durs rencontrées dans les étages bathyal et abyssal de Méditerranée française (fiche réalisée dans le cadre de l'Etat Initial de la DCSMM - Sous Région Marine Méditerranée Occidentale).
Gene by Social-Environment Interaction for Youth Delinquency and Violence: Thirty-Nine Aggression-Related Genes
Creators: name: Guo, Guang
name: Liu, Hexuan
name: Li, Yi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Complex human traits are likely to be affected by many environmental and genetic factors, and the interactions among them. However, previous gene-environment interaction (G×E) studies have typically focused on one or only a few genetic variants at a time. To provide a broader view of G×E, this study examines the relationship between 403 genetic variants from 39 genes and youth delinquency and violence. We find evidence that low social control is associated with greater genetic risk for delinquency and violence and high/moderate social control with smaller genetic risk for delinquency and violence. Our findings are consistent with prior G×E studies based on a small number of genetic variants, and, more importantly, we show that these findings still hold when a large number of genetic variants are considered simultaneously. A key implication of these findings is that the expression of multiple genes related to delinquency depends on the social environment: gene expression is likely to be amplified in low-social-control environments but, tends to be suppressed in high/moderate-social-control environments. This study not only deepens our understanding of how the social environment shapes individual behavior, but also provides important conceptual and methodological insights for future G×E research on complex human traits.
Guide du chef de mission de la campagne PELGAS
Creators: name: Doray, Mathieu
name: Badts, Vincent
name: Huret, Martin
name: Duhamel, Erwan
name: Doremus, Ghislain
name: Masse, Jacques
name: Petitgas, Pierre
Publisher: name: Ifremer
Year: 2015

description: L'édition des Guides du chef de mission des campagnes halieutiques vise en particulier les campagnes inscrites dans des séries de relevés pluri-annuels (campagnes benthiques, démersales et pélagiques). Mais elle concerne également toutes les campagnes halieutiques dont les données sont déposées auprès du Système d'information halieutique - campagnes à la mer.
Cette documentation sur la campagne PELGAS est publiée pour répondre aux objectifs suivants :
- Constituant le complément opérationnel aux manuels des protocoles des campagnes halieutiques, les Guides du chef de mission fournissent aux chefs de mission et aux équipes embarquées une documentation de base leur permettant de maîtriser l'ensemble des opérations à conduire pendant les campagnes. Ils contribuent ainsi à la cohérence de la conduite des observations et de l'acquisition des relevés au cours des séries, même dans le cas de changement de responsable des opérations.
- Les Guides du chef de mission viennent en complément au guide des opérations navales édité par la DMON (http://www.ifremer.fr/guideopnav/) et qui rassemble l’ensemble des règles, procédures et formulaires pour les demandes de campagnes, leur préparation, leur exécution et l’exploitation de leurs résultats.
- Les Guides du chef de mission fournissent aux responsables de la mise en œuvre des campagnes toutes les informations nécessaires à la préparation des campagnes, à leur réalisation à bord des navires d'observation et au transfert des produits des campagnes à leurs destinataires finaux.
- Comme les manuels des protocoles, les Guides du chef de mission sont révisés autant que de besoin, après approbation du responsable de la campagne concerné. Chaque édition est attachée à une campagne ou une série de campagnes. Les révisions sont référencées pour en permettre le suivi.
- L'édition des révisions permet d'adapter le guide aux évolutions prévues dans le manuel des protocoles correspondant, ainsi qu'à celles de l'environnement technique dans lequel les campagnes sont conduites. Elle permet en outre de documenter et de suivre toute modification éventuelle du système d'observation des séries concernées.
- La réalisation des Guides du chef de mission s'inscrit dans la démarche Qualité du projet SIH-Campagnes à la mer de l'Ifremer.
Event-related potentials reveal temporal staging of dynamic facial expression and gaze shift effects on attentional orienting
Creators: name: Fichtenholtz, Harlan
name: LaBar, Kevin
name: Detwiler, Jacqueline
name: Hopfinger, Joseph
name: Graham, Reiko
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Multiple sources of information from the face guide attention during social interaction. The present study modified the Posner cueing paradigm to investigate how dynamic changes in emotional expression and eye gaze in faces affect the neural processing of subsequent target stimuli. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants viewed centrally presented face displays in which gaze direction (left, direct, right) and facial expression (fearful, neutral) covaried in a fully crossed design. Gaze direction was not predictive of peripheral target location. ERP analysis revealed several sequential effects, including: (1) an early enhancement of target processing following fearful faces (P1); (2) an interaction between expression and gaze (N1), with enhanced target processing following fearful faces with rightward gaze; and (3) an interaction between gaze and target location (P3), with enhanced processing for invalidly cued left visual field targets. Behaviorally, participants responded faster to targets following fearful faces and targets presented in the right visual field, in concordance with the P1 and N1 effects, respectively. The findings indicate that two nonverbal social cues—facial expression and gaze direction—modulate attentional orienting across different temporal stages of processing. Results have implications for understanding the mental chronometry of shared attention and social referencing.
title: Data augmentation and image understanding
title: Datenerweiterung und Bildverständnis
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hernandez-Garcia, Alex
Publisher: name: Universität Osnabrück
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: data augmentation
subject: image understanding
subject: deep learning
subject: neural networks
subject: visual perception
subject: computational neuroscience
subject: 004 - Informatik

description: Interdisciplinary research is often at the core of scientific progress. This dissertation explores some advantageous synergies between machine learning, cognitive science and neuroscience. In particular, this thesis focuses on vision and images. The human visual system has been widely studied from both behavioural and neuroscientific points of view, as vision is the dominant sense of most people. In turn, machine vision has also been an active area of research, currently dominated by the use of artificial neural networks. This work focuses on learning representations that are more aligned with visual perception and the biological vision. For that purpose, I have studied tools and aspects from cognitive science and computational neuroscience, and attempted to incorporate them into machine learning models of vision. A central subject of this dissertation is data augmentation, a commonly used technique for training artificial neural networks to augment the size of data sets through transformations of the images. Although often overlooked, data augmentation implements transformations that are perceptually plausible, since they correspond to the transformations we see in our visual world–changes in viewpoint or illumination, for instance. Furthermore, neuroscientists have found that the brain invariantly represents objects under these transformations. Throughout this dissertation, I use these insights to analyse data augmentation as a particularly useful inductive bias, a more effective regularisation method for artificial neural networks, and as the framework to analyse and improve the invariance of vision models to perceptually plausible transformations. Overall, this work aims to shed more light on the properties of data augmentation and demonstrate the potential of interdisciplinary research.
Морфофизиологическое состояние массовых видов рыб как один из факторов истощения рыбных запасов Саратовского водохранилища
Creators: name: Минеев А.К.
Publisher: name: Самарская Лука: проблемы региональной и глобальной экологии
Year: 2018
Subjects: МАССОВЫЕ ВИДЫ РЫБ
МОРФОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ АНОМАЛИИ
ГЕМАТОПАТОЛОГИИ
ГИСТОПАТОЛОГИИ
ДЕГРАДАЦИЯ ИХТИОФАУНЫ

description: Среди факторов, определяющих современные качественные и количественные показатели ихтиофауны Саратовского водохранилища, особое значение приобретает морфофизиологическое состояние отдельных особей и популяций массовых видов рыб. На протяжении всего периода исследования 1995-2014 гг. наблюдается как стабильно высокая встречаемость молоди рыб с разнообразными морфологическими аномалиями, так и неуклонное увеличение доли половозрелых особей в популяциях массовых видов рыб с нарушениями гематологических и гистологических параметров, что является одной из причин деградации ихтиофауны.
Active extension portfolio optimization with non-convex risk measures using metaheuristics
Creators: name: Hochreiter, Ronald
name: Waldhauser, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We consider the optimization of active extension portfolios. For this purpose, the optimization problem is rewritten as a stochastic programming model and solved using a clever multi-start local search heuristic, which turns out to provide stable solutions. The heuristic solutions are compared to optimization results of convex optimization solvers where applicable. Furthermore, the approach is applied to solve problems with non-convex risk measures, most notably to minimize Value-at-Risk. Numerical results using data from both the Dow Jones Industrial Average as well as the DAX 30 are shown.