cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Μεθοδολογία επαναχρησιμοποίησης κώδικα βασισμένη σε πρότυπο σχεδίασης:
Creators: name: Μίχου, Ολγα Νικολάου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2009
Subjects: Ποιότητα λογισμικού
Σύζευξη
Συνεκτικότητα
Διατηρησιμότητα
Πρότυπα σχεδίασης
Επαναχρησιμοποίηση
Software quality
Cohesion
Coupling
Maintenability
Reusability
Software engeeniring

description: Software quality, regarding software maintenance and consequently the possibility of its reuse, is well known and discussed. Although there is not only one definition available to describe software quality, everybody can comprehend this concept, especially by the means of its absence. Achieving software quality is strongly connected to the concept of software metric, which is an essential procedure for the estimation the products state, procedures and resources. By applying metrics at a software, one can count those characteristics that contribute to its quality. As a result, it can be possible to draw conclusions for how much the software satisfies the quality criteria. The objective of this master thesis is the presentation of a methodology for object oriented code reuse, based on design patterns, and its validations through a case study, so as to draw conclusions mainly for its maintainability and consequently for its possibility to be reused.
description: Η ποιότητα του λογισμικού, με την έννοια της συντηρησιμότητά του και κατ’ επέκταση της δυνατότητα επαναχρησιμοποίησης του, είναι μία πολυσυζητημένη έννοια στις μέρες μας. Παρόλο που δεν υπάρχει ένας και μόνο ορισμός που να την περιγράφει, όλοι αντιλαμβάνονται την έννοια της ποιότητας λογισμικού, ιδιαίτερα μέσω της απουσίας της. Η διασφάλιση της ποιότητας του λογισμικού συνδέεται άμεσα με την έννοια της μετρικής, που είναι μία διαδικασία απαραίτητη για τη εκτίμηση της κατάστασης των προϊόντων, των διαδικασιών και των πόρων παραγωγής λογισμικού. Με την εφαρμογή των μετρικών σε ένα λογισμικό, μετρώνται εκείνα τα χαρακτηριστικά του που συμβάλλουν σημαντικά στην ποιότητά του. Έτσι, είναι δυνατό να εξαχθούν συμπεράσματα για το κατά πόσο το λογισμικό πληροί τα κριτήρια ποιότητας. Αντικείμενο της παρούσας μεταπτυχιακής εργασίας είναι η παρουσίαση μίας μεθοδολογίας επαναχρησιμοποίησης κώδικα αντικειμενοστραφούς προγραμματισμού με βάση πρότυπα σχεδίασης, και η εγκυροποίησής της μέσω μιας μελέτης περίπτωσης, ώστε να εξαχθούν συμπεράσματα κυρίως για τη συντηρησιμότητά του και κατ’ επέκταση για τη δυνατότητα επαναχρησιμοποίησης του.
Bridging the Gap: Addressing Mineral Deficiencies in Poultry Diets for Optimal Health and Productivity
Creators: name: Mehroz Latif1, Muhammad Adnan Sabir Mughal2, Baseer Ahmad2*,1Faculty of Veterinary Sciences, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan-Pakistan 2Faculty of Veterinary and Sciences, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture Multan, 25000, Pakistan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: A significant challenge in feeding poultry to obtain optimal growth, bone development, and health in commercial flocks is mineral deficiencies in poultry diets. Essential minerals like calcium, phosphorus, magnesium and trace elements such as zinc, copper and manganese are required in optimum and equal balance in poultry diet for metabolic functions, skeletal integrity and egg production. However, many of these mineral needs are not fulfilled by modern feed formulations. These formulation often have varying bioavailability, variable quality of ingredients and interactions with other dietary components. This review also examines the impacts of mineral deficiencies by their effect on poultry performance metrics, including growth rates, egg quality, and immunity. Calcium and phosphorus deficiencies, for instance, lead to skeletal disorders like rickets and osteoporosis which significantly impacts the production. The lack of trace minerals affects the enzyme function, immune response and reproductive efficiency, resulting in long term economic loss for the poultry industry. Various novel solutions like chelated minerals, nano-mineral technology and bio fortified feed ingredients are gaining attention due to their potential in enhancing the absorption and utilization of the various minerals. In addition, precision nutrition strategies, including feed additive innovations and improved management of mineral interaction, promises to address these deficiencies. This review also highlights the latest findings and practical approaches in achieving mineral requirements for poultry diets, leading to improved flock health, productivity and sustainability in the poultry sector.
Reinhold Robert Lohse – "Zither-Reinhold"
Creators: name: Moeller, Katrin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ehrengräber
subject: Gertraudenfriedhof
subject: Straßenkünstler
subject: Steitz, Margarete (geb. Lohse)
subject: Stadtgeschichte
subject: Folk music
subject: Street performer
subject: Second World War
subject: Euthanasia
subject: Biography
subject: Honorary graves
subject: Ehrengräber der Stadt Halle (Saale)
subject: Honorary graves of the city of Halle (Saale)
subject: gnd:4468056-9
subject: gnd:4067892-1
subject: gnd:4063854-6
subject: gnd:4079167-1
subject: gnd:4015794-5
subject: gnd:4041316-0
subject: gnd:4051462-6
subject: gnd:4006804-3
subject: gnd:131812831
subject: gnd:4021716-4
subject: gnd:4023025-9

description: Die Kurzbiografie gibt das Leben von Reinhold Robert Lohse (1878-1964) wieder, der unter dem Namen "Zither-Reinhold" als Straßenmusiker in Halle (Saale) lebte. Lohse gilt heute als ein unvergessenes, stadtbekanntes Hallisches Original. Die Biografie wird im Rahmen des Projekts Ehrengräber der Stadt Halle (Saale) veröffentlicht. Im Jahr 2020 wurde sein Grab auf dem Gertraudenfriedhof zum Ehrengrab erklärt. The short biography gives the life of Reinhold Robert Lohse (1878-1964), who lived under the name "Zither-Reinhold" as a street musician in Halle (Saale). Today, Lohse is considered an unforgotten, city-famous Halle original. The biography is published as part of the project honorary graves of the city of Halle (Saale). In 2020, his grave in the Gertrauden Cemetery was declared an honorary grave.
The Bright Side and the Dark Side of Hybrid Organic Inorganic Perovskites
Creators: name: Walukiewicz, Wladek
name: Wang, Shu
name: Wu, Xinchun
name: Li, Rundong
name: Sherburne, Matthew P.
name: Wu, Bo
name: Sun, Tze Chien
name: Ager, Joel W.
name: Asta, Mark D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The previously developed bistable amphoteric native defect (BAND) model is used for a comprehensive explanation of the unique photophysical properties and for understanding the remarkable performance of perovskites as photovoltaic materials. It is shown that the amphoteric defects in donor (acceptor) configuration capture a fraction of photoexcited electrons (holes) dividing them into two groups: higher energy bright and lower energy dark electrons (holes). The spatial separation of the dark electrons and the dark holes and the k-space separation of the bright and the dark charge carriers reduce electron hole recombination rates, emulating the properties of an ideal photovoltaic material with a balanced, spatially separated transport of electrons and holes. The BAND model also offers a straightforward explanation for the exceptional insensitivity of the photovoltaic performance of polycrystalline perovskite films to structural and optical inhomogeneities. The blue-shifted radiative recombination of bright electrons and holes results in a large anti-Stokes effect that provides a quantitative explanation for the spectral dependence of the laser cooling effect measured in perovskite platelets.
The impact of Galactic synchrotron emission on CMB anisotropy measurements. I. Angular power spectrum analysis of total intensity all-sky surveys
Creators: name: La Porta, L.
name: Burigana, C.
name: Reich, W.
name: Reich, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Galactic foreground emission is a limiting factor for precise cosmic microwave background (CMB) anisotropy measurements. We perform an angular power spectrum analysis (APS) of all-sky total intensity maps at 408 MHz and 1420 MHz, which are dominated by synchrotron emission out of the Galactic plane. We subtract the brighter sources from the maps. We study the APS as a function of Galactic latitude by considering various cuts and as a function of sky position by dividing the sky into patches of about 15 deg x 15 deg in size. The APS of the Galactic radio diffuse synchrotron emission is best fitted by a power law, $C_{\ell} \sim k \ell^α$, with $α\in [-3.0,-2.6]$, where the lower values of $α$ typically correspond to the higher latitudes. Nevertheless, the analysis of the patches reveals that strong local variations exist. The mean APS for $\ell \in [20,40]$ is used to determine the mean spectral index between 408 MHz and 1420 MHz, which is then adopted to extrapolate the synchrotron APS results to the microwave range. A simple extrapolation to 23 GHz of the synchrotron emission APS found at 408 and 1420 MHz does not explain all the power in the WMAP synchrotron component even at middle/high Galactic latitudes. This suggests a significant microwave contribution (of about 50% of the signal) by other components such as free-free or spinning dust emission. The comparison between the extrapolated synchrotron APS and the CMB APS shows that a mask excluding the regions with $|b_{gal}| \lesssim 5^{\circ}$ would reduce the foreground fluctuations to about half of the cosmological ones at 70 GHz even at the lowest multipoles. We discuss the main implications of our analysis for the cosmological exploitation of microwave temperature anisotropy maps.
description: 15 pages, 20 figures, Astronomy & Astrophysics, accepted
Albite feldspar dissolution kinetics as a function of the Gibbs free energy at high pCO_2
Creators: name: Hellmann, Roland
name: Daval, Damien
name: Tisserand, Delphine
name: Renard, François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We are currently measuring the dissolution kinetics of albite feldspar at 100 deg C in the presence of high levels of dissolved CO_2 (pCO_2 = 9 MPa) as a function of the saturation state of the feldspar (Gibbs free energy of reaction, ΔG). The experiments are conducted using a flow through reactor, thereby allowing the dissolution reactions to occur at a fixed pH and at constant, but variable saturation states. Preliminary results indicate that at far-from-equilibrium conditions, the dissolution kinetics of albite are defined by a rate plateau, with R \approx 5.0 x 10^{-10} mol m^{-2} s^{-1} at -70 < ΔG < -40 kJ mol^{-1}. At ΔG > -40 kJ mol^{-1}, the rates decrease sharply, revealing a strong inverse relation between the dissolution rate and free energy. Based on the experiments carried out to date, the dissolution rate-free energy data correspond to a highly non-linear and sigmoidal relation, in accord with recent studies.
Generic initial ideal for complete intersections of embedding dimension three with strong Lefschetz property
Creators: name: Cimpoeas, Mircea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Commutative Algebra (math.AC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 13P10, Secondary 13D40, 13C40

description: We compute the generic initial ideal of a complete intersection of embedding dimension three with strong Lefschetz property and we show that it is an almost reverse lexicographic ideal. This enable us to give a proof for Moreno's conjecture in the case $n=3$.
description: 27 pages
Does the availability of ChatGPT impact applicants' responses in situational judgment tests?
Creators: name: Iqbal, Muhammad Zafar
name: Harwood, Harley
name: Roulin, Nicolas
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: Situational Judgement Tests (SJTs) are typically used to measure non-technical skills by evaluating applicants’ responses to a variety of hypothetical scenarios that professionals would likely encounter in their roles. SJTs are often used for admission into professional programs (e.g., medicine, dentistry) to assess interpersonal skills, ethics or potential misconduct, social intelligence and professionalism. While not immune, SJTs are less susceptible to applicant faking than personality tests. Generative AI (or LLMs like ChatGPT) can increase applicant’s capacity and/or opportunity to fake, leading to improved SJT scores and selection of wrong applicants. In the presented study, we have answered three research questions, which are as follows:

1. How does faking using generative AI help (or hinder) applicant SJT performance?

2. How do applicants’ responses differ when using generative AI versus not?

3. Are AI-detection tools effective to identify applicants’ use of generative AI?
Growing together: Reflections from a faculty and resident development pilot
Creators: name: Chawla, Elizabeth
name: Fitzpatrick, Megha
name: Evangelista, Rebecca
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: Background:

Effective feedback in medical education requires an “educational alliance” (Telio at al) between learner and teacher, with a shared commitment to the learner’s professional growth and a supportive relationship allowing for learner acceptance of feedback (Ramani et al). Our residents have identified feedback as a priority area, and through local needs assessments both residents and faculty expressed discomfort and desired an improved feedback culture. Here we present a pilot of paired workshops on Growth Mindset as a foundation for improved culture of learner feedback, with lessons learned.

Summary of Work:

Content experts presented a workshop based on Dweck’s Growth Mindset as a foundational step towards creating a shared commitment to the residents' professional growth. To encourage psychological safety, paired workshops were delivered separately to residents and faculty during an annual faculty retreat and a resident educational session the following day. Approximately 35 faculty and 34 residents participated. Residents and faculty completed surveys approximately 3 months after the workshop to provide feedback and reflect on any impact on their professional growth.

Summary of Results:

Both residents and faculty found the greatest strength of the workshop to be the opportunity for discussion with peers, sharing real-world examples and trouble-shooting common challenges in implementing the concepts. Three months later, most participants are applying the concepts to their own professional growth and are starting to use the concepts in feedback conversations with one another, but there is still some disconnect between learners and faculty around a perceived lack of commitment to the professional growth of the learner from each other.

Discussion/Conclusions:

Discomfort with feedback conversations is common for both learners and faculty members, and establishing a shared mental model or mindset around commitment to professional growth can be helpful for focusing these conversations.  We found in addition to a shared mental model the relationship between learner and faculty is equally important to the effectiveness of the feedback conversation and should also be considered in future faculty development planning.

Take home message:

Although parallel workshops provided psychological safety for participants within peer groups, co-learning may be more effective for creating an “educational alliance” and a supportive relationship between faculty and learners.
Convergence of a Periodic Orbit Family Close to Asteroids During a Continuation
Creators: name: Kang, Haokun
name: Jiang, Yu
name: Li, Hengnian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study the continuation of a periodic orbit on a relatively large scale and discover the existence of convergence under certain conditions, which has profound significance in research on asteroids and can provide a total geometric perspective to understanding the evolution of the dynamic characteristics from a global perspective. Based on the polyhedron model, convergence is derived via a series of theoretical analyses and derivations, which shows that a periodic orbit will evolve into a nearly circular orbit with a normal periodic ratio (e.g., 2:1, 3:2, and 4:3) and almost zero torsion under proper circumstances. As an application of the results developed here, three asteroids, (216) Kleopatra, (22) Kalliope and (433) Eros, are studied, and several representative periodic orbit families are detected, with convergence in three different cases: bidirectional, increasing-directional and decreasing-directional continuation. At the same time, four commonalities among these numerical examples are concluded. First, a (pseudo) tangent bifurcation arises at the cuspidal points during the variations in the periodic ratios in a single periodic orbit family. In addition, these cuspidal points in the periodic ratio coincide with the turning points during the variations in the average radius, the maximal torsion and the maximal radius of curvature. Furthermore, the periodic ratio increases (or decreases) with an increase (or decrease) in the Jacobian constant overall. We find the relationship between periodic ratio and Jacobian constant. The results implies that the periodic ratios for a fixed resonant status have an infimum and a supremum. Finally, if the periodic orbit converges to a point, it can be an unstable equilibrium point of the asteroid.
description: 40 pages, 28 figures
Cavitation Bubble Dynamics inside Liquid Drops in Microgravity
Creators: name: Obreschkow, D.
name: Kobel, P.
name: Dorsaz, N.
name: de Bosset, A.
name: Nicollier, C.
name: Farhat, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We studied spark-generated cavitation bubbles inside water drops produced in microgravity. High-speed visualizations disclosed unique effects of the spherical and nearly isolated liquid volume. In particular, (1) toroidally collapsing bubbles generate two liquid jets escaping from the drop, and the "splash jet" discloses a remarkable broadening. (2) Shockwaves induce a strong form of secondary cavitation due to the particular shockwave confinement. This feature offers a novel way to estimate integral shockwave energies in isolated volumes. (3) Bubble lifetimes in drops are shorter than in extended volumes in remarkable agreement with herein derived corrective terms for the Rayleigh-Plesset equation.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Spin orbit precession damping in transition metal ferromagnets
Creators: name: Gilmore, Keith
name: Idzerda, Yves U.
name: Stiles, Mark D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We provide a simple explanation, based on an effective field, for the precession damping rate due to the spin-orbit interaction. Previous effective field treatments of spin-orbit damping include only variations of the state energies with respect to the magnetization direction, an effect referred to as the breathing Fermi surface. Treating the interaction of the rotating spins with the orbits as a perturbation, we include also changes in the state populations in the effective field. In order to investigate the quantitative differences between the damping rates of iron, cobalt, and nickel, we compute the dependence of the damping rate on the density of states and the spin-orbit parameter. There is a strong correlation between the density of states and the damping rate. The intraband terms of the damping rate depend on the spin-orbit parameter cubed while the interband terms are proportional to the spin-orbit parameter squared. However, the spectrum of band gaps is also an important quantity and does not appear to depend in a simple way on material parameters.
description: To appear in J. Appl. Phys. (May/June 2008)
Black-Hole Phenomenology
Creators: name: Bilic, Neven
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This set of lectures is an introduction to black-hole astrophysics. The emphasis is made on the phenomenology of X-ray binaries and of supermassive compact objects at galactic centers.
description: 58 pages, 4 figures, notes to the lectures given at the School on Particle Physics, Gravity and Cosmology, Dubrovnik, 21 Aug - 2 Sept 2006, references added, typos corrected, to appear in the proceedings of the school, comments welcome
Percolation on complex networks: Theory and application
Creators: name: Li, Ming
name: Liu, Run-Ran
name: Lü, Linyuan
name: Hu, Mao-Bin
name: Xu, Shuqi
name: Zhang, Yi-Cheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the last two decades, network science has blossomed and influenced various fields, such as statistical physics, computer science, biology and sociology, from the perspective of the heterogeneous interaction patterns of components composing the complex systems. As a paradigm for random and semi-random connectivity, percolation model plays a key role in the development of network science and its applications. On the one hand, the concepts and analytical methods, such as the emergence of the giant cluster, the finite-size scaling, and the mean-field method, which are intimately related to the percolation theory, are employed to quantify and solve some core problems of networks. On the other hand, the insights into the percolation theory also facilitate the understanding of networked systems, such as robustness, epidemic spreading, vital node identification, and community detection. Meanwhile, network science also brings some new issues to the percolation theory itself, such as percolation of strong heterogeneous systems, topological transition of networks beyond pairwise interactions, and emergence of a giant cluster with mutual connections. So far, the percolation theory has already percolated into the researches of structure analysis and dynamic modeling in network science. Understanding the percolation theory should help the study of many fields in network science, including the still opening questions in the frontiers of networks, such as networks beyond pairwise interactions, temporal networks, and network of networks. The intention of this paper is to offer an overview of these applications, as well as the basic theory of percolation transition on network systems.
description: 88 pages,19 figures, 5 tables
Palästina/Israel: zweite Gruppe ökumenischer Begleitpersonen nimmt Arbeit im März 2003 auf
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 52 Nr. 2 (2003): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 52, Heft 2
Cost Estimating and Forecasting for Highway Work in Kentucky
Creators: name: Maloney, William F.
name: Walton, Jennifer R.
name: Ross, Adam
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: There is a need for better cost estimating and forecasting for highway work in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. KRS45.245 grants the Interim Joint Committee on Transportation oversight of the biennial highway plan, including a review of all authorized highway project phases that exceed their estimates by 15%. Estimates developed using current methods are not sufficiently accurate to preclude cost overruns in excess of 15%. Estimates are prepared before design is begun so that a project may be included in the six year plan. The estimates are not revised after a more detailed scope of the project is developed during design and after design is completed. Consequently, there have been 455 overruns since 1992. All have been approved for the necessary additional funding. Causes of cost overruns for the 455 overruns during the past five years were studies. The development of a conceptual estimating model, KYEstimate, was continued and reported on. Recommendations and conclusions are presented.
2005 Ligia Inuma Inuma recordings
Creators: name: Bautista Pizarro, Sisi
name: Beier, Christine
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: iqu

description: WAV audio recordings of 3 texts, in Iquito followed by Loretano Spanish [unless noted]:
1. CF1: Jɨɨ́taaraata kí-nikikiaakɨ kw-ákuma Felix iwíini: Cómo he visto su vida de mi tío Felix: My view of my uncle Felix's life [Iquito only]
(Iquito: 11m11sec; total: 11m17sec)
2. LI3: Kí-saminiíjuuyaa uumáata kí-nasi: Pienso mucho en mi chacra: I often think about my 'chacra' (garden) [Iquito only]
(Iquito: 7m32sec; total: 7m32sec)
3. QCC: Kí-nakarɨɨ́yaa kaakáraaja kajíini: Quiero criar gallinas: I want to raise chickens [Iquito only]
(Iquito: 4m34sec; total: 4m44sec)
Maximum and entropic repulsion for a Gaussian membrane model in the critical dimension
Creators: name: Kurt, Noemi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 60K35, 82B41, 31B30 (Primary)

description: We consider the real-valued centered Gaussian field on the four-dimensional integer lattice, whose covariance matrix is given by the Green's function of the discrete Bilaplacian. This is interpreted as a model for a semiflexible membrane. $d=4$ is the critical dimension for this model. We discuss the effect of a hard wall on the membrane, via a multiscale analysis of the maximum of the field. We use analytic and probabilistic tools to describe the correlation structure of the field.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/08-AOP417 the Annals of Probability (http://www.imstat.org/aop/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Vibrational Heat-Bath Configuration Interaction
Creators: name: Fetherolf, Jonathan H.
name: Berkelbach, Timothy C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce vibrational heat-bath configuration interaction (VHCI) as an accurate and efficient method for calculating vibrational eigenstates of anharmonic systems. Inspired by its origin in electronic structure theory, VHCI is a selected CI approach that uses a simple criterion to identify important basis states with a pre-sorted list of anharmonic force constants. Screened second-order perturbation theory and simple extrapolation techniques provide significant improvements to variational energy estimates. We benchmark VHCI on four molecules with 12 to 48 degrees of freedom and use anharmonic potential energy surfaces truncated at fourth and sixth order. For all molecules studied, VHCI produces vibrational spectra of tens or hundreds of states with sub-wavenumber accuracy at low computational cost.
The Johns Hopkins provost’s Leadership, Advancement, & Development (L.A.D.) academy character strengths workshop: Precision professional development for faculty
Creators: name: Gamaldo, Charlene E.
name: Salas, Rachel Marie E.
Publisher: name: F1000 Research Limited
Year: 2024

description: Recognizing the time pressures and constraints facing faculty and educators, our 90-minute workshop is strategically designed to provide high-yield elements of faculty development through the principles of precision education. This experiential workshop will introduce the VIA Strengths tool. Participants will be able to learn about their strengths and participate in a group discussion exploring the potential applications of a strengths-based approach in education. The workshop will conclude with examples of how a strengths-based approach can be used for faculty professional development. Our workshop will provide faculty with an engaging and transformative experience, offering practical tools and strategies to enhance their mentoring, role modeling, and advising skills. The interactive format will foster a community of practice and allow an opportunity to personalize strategies, tools, and applications in alignment with the current trends in faculty education. Participants will leave empowered and equipped to bring positive change to their teaching and mentoring approaches.
RAINWATCH Handbook: A step by step guide to using RAINWATCH, version 1.0
Creators: name: Asare, Kofi
name: Cornforth, Rosalind Jane
name: Tarhule, Aondover
name: Osbahr, Henny
name: Ciampi, Luisa
name: Myers, Jacob
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: RAINWATCH
Drought monitoring
Climate Information Services
Africa
Sahel
Technological platform
Global Framework

description: The RAINWATCH Handbook has been designed to help RAINWATCH users navigate the web-based RAINWATCH system. Examples of use include policy discussions within the MoFA (Ministry of Food and Agriculture) to discuss with crop scientists, extension officers and farmers the implications of the RAINWATCH information to improve decision-making through the season. Farmers who are practicing rain-fed or irrigated agriculture require timely, accurate season-to-date and forward looking rainfall information for planning purposes. Another example of use could be to improve information provided to farmers via radio or via NGO activities that require weather information for their projects. The Handbookl includes a series of easy to follow step-by-step visuals based on the RAINWATCH training presentations to help new users/priducers of information understand the different views and content to make informed selections of the available content for their decision use cases.
A Comparative Study of Feature Types for Age-Based Text Classification
Creators: name: Glazkova, Anna
name: Egorov, Yury
name: Glazkov, Maksim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.7; I.7.m; H.3.3
subject: 68T50

description: The ability to automatically determine the age audience of a novel provides many opportunities for the development of information retrieval tools. Firstly, developers of book recommendation systems and electronic libraries may be interested in filtering texts by the age of the most likely readers. Further, parents may want to select literature for children. Finally, it will be useful for writers and publishers to determine which features influence whether the texts are suitable for children. In this article, we compare the empirical effectiveness of various types of linguistic features for the task of age-based classification of fiction texts. For this purpose, we collected a text corpus of book previews labeled with one of two categories -- children's or adult. We evaluated the following types of features: readability indices, sentiment, lexical, grammatical and general features, and publishing attributes. The results obtained show that the features describing the text at the document level can significantly increase the quality of machine learning models.
description: Accepted to AIST-2020 (The 9th International Conference on Analysis of Images, Social Networks and Texts)
Kommuniqué der 10. Begegnung im bilateralen Theologischen Dialog zwischen der Rumänischen Orthodoxen Kirche und der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland (Goslar X)
Creators: name: Serafim, Deutschland
name: Koppe, Rolf
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 52 Nr. 2 (2003): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 52, Heft 2
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
Creators: name: Ruf, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Ehrengräber der Stadt Halle (Saale)
subject: Ehrengräber
subject: Lieder
subject: Musik
subject: Musikpublizist
subject: Komponist
subject: Hofkapellmeister
subject: Giebichenstein
subject: Reichardts Garten
subject: Violine
subject: Halle (Saale)
subject: Aufklärung
subject: Französische Revolution
subject: Herberge der Romantik
subject: Romantik
subject: Konzerte
subject: Bartholomäuskirche
subject: Napoleonische Kriege
subject: Honorary graves of the city of Halle (Saale)
subject: Graves of honour
subject: Music
subject: Music publicist
subject: Composer
subject: Court Kapellmeister
subject: Reichardt's Garden
subject: Violin
subject: Enlightenment
subject: French Revolution
subject: Hostel of Romanticism
subject: Romanticism
subject: Concerts
subject: Bartholomew Church
subject: Napoleonic Wars
subject: Songs
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description: Johann Friedrich Reichardt (1752-1814) war ein bekannter Musiker, Komponist und Publizist. Nach einer raschen Karriere zum Königlich Preußischen Hofkapellmeister und einem intensiven Schaffen, zeigte er in seiner publizistischen Tätigkeit offene Sympathien zur Französischen Revolution und wurde daher entlassen. Daraufhin baute er ein in Halle-Giebichenstein die sogenannten „Herberge der Romantik“ auf. Das romantische Gartenreich mit zahlreichen Konzerten war ein Treffpunkt zahlreicher Künstler, Gelehrter und Denker. Die Biografie wurde im Rahmen des Projekts Ehrengräber der Stadt Halle (Saale) veröffentlicht. Im Jahr 2020 wurde sein Grab auf dem ehemaligen Friedhof der St. Bartholomäuskirche zum Ehrengrab erklärt. Reichardt was a well-known musician, composer and publicist. After a rapid career as Royal Prussian Court Kapellmeister and intensive creative work, he showed open sympathies for the French Revolution in his journalistic activities and was therefore dismissed. Thereupon he built up a so-called "Hostel of Romanticism" in Halle-Giebichenstein. The Romantic Garden Kingdom with its numerous concerts was a meeting place for numerous artists, scholars and thinkers. The biography was published as part of the project Honorary Graves of the City of Halle (Saale). In 2020, his grave in the former cemetery of St Bartholomew's Church was declared a grave of honour.
Fourier transform detection of weak optical transitions with cyclic routines
Creators: name: Schelfhout, Jesse S.
name: Toms-Hardman, Lilani D.
name: McFerran, John J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a means of detecting weak optical transitions in cold atoms that undergo cyclic routines with high sensitivity. The gain in sensitivity is made by probing atoms on alternate cycles leading to a regular modulation of the ground state atom population when at the resonance frequency. The atomic transition is identified by conducting a fast Fourier transform via algorithm or instrument. We find an enhancement of detection sensitivity compared to more conventional scanning methods of $\sim 20$ for the same sampling time, and can detect clock lines with fewer than $10^3$ atoms in a magneto-optical trap. We apply the method to the $(6s^{2})$ $ ^{1}S_{0} - (6s6p)$ $^{3}P_{0}$ clock transition in $^{171}$Yb and $^{173}$Yb. The ac-Stark shift of this line in $^{171}$Yb is measured to be 0.19(3) kHz$\cdot$W$^{-1}\cdot$m$^2$ at 556 nm.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures
title:  A Military Surge in Afghanistan -- Modeling a Focused Security Effort
Creators: name: Morrow, Brent David
Publisher: name: Old Dominion University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: In October of 2001, the United States invaded Afghanistan and ousted the Taliban government. Since their overthrow, the Taliban has pieced together and waged an insurgency to retake Afghanistan. That insurgency has gained momentum and grown in strength while the United States I NA TO counterinsurgency effort has decreased in size to about 55,000 troops in 2007. Many factors contribute to the insurgency inside of Afghanistan, from ethnic to economic factors to the failure of the central government. This research used a study of the current state of affairs in Afghanistan and agent-based modeling to determine whether a military troop surge emphasizing a Focused Security Effort could be successful in battling the growing insurgency within Afghanistan.

An agent-based model was created and validated against the current strategy and situation on the ground in Afghanistan. Three experiments were then conducted representing surges of fifty percent, two hundred percent, and four hundred percent. The results indicate that a surge of two hundred percent or four hundred percent of the current size force in Afghanistan would be successful at reducing the size of the insurgency, but a surge of only fifty percent (50,000 more troops) would not yield results different than current results using the current strategy. These model results provide insight into the potential success of various sized troop surges in Afghanistan that implement a Focused Security Effort.
Can you think a little louder?: a classroom-based ethnography of eight and nine year olds composing with music and language
Creators: name: Freed Carlin, Joi Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The purpose of this qualitative study was to investigate the processes in which eight and nine year old children engaged as they composed generative expressions with music and language. This study was a classroom-based ethnography conducted by a teacher/researcher in the context of her own general music classroom and the home room of the participant students. Twenty-one boys and girls in a suburban grade three class were involved in this four and one-half month study; three children were chosen as target (focus) composers. This study was designed so that the primary voice and point of view was that of the student-composers rather than that of the adult teacher/researcher. To that end, methodologies for data collection and interpretation were flexible and emergent, to allow for inclusion of unexpected events, interactions, foci/directions, etc. and to ensure that student-composers' self-described decisions about their work were at the forefront of the discussion and interpretation of the data. A framework was devised to inform and clarify the teacher/researcher's understanding of what the children were doing as they composed. This framework provided a flexible structure for organization and illustration of data used for interpretive purposes. Data collected included: 1) journals, written self evaluations and in-process verbal critiques by all students 2) video-tapes of focus composers in: a) working sessions b) reflective discussion with the teacher/researcher 3) video-tapes of all students in: a) in-process sharing/critiquing sessions b) final performances of compositions 4) field notes of the teacher/researcher, including observations, informal conversations with student-composers, and observations and comments of the home room teacher. Findings from this study included these insights: 1) For these child-composers, process and product were intertwined throughout the making of their compositions; 2) These child-composers began with a holistic idea of what they wanted to do and proceeded to explore, revise and polish their compositions in the particular medium until they reached their self-determined goal; 3) Socio-cultural factors of informal (enculturated or acquired) learning, and general maturity, were primary influences in decision-making in compositions with both music and language; 4) Training made a difference in the baseline starting point in composing ability, attitude, speed of the compositional process, and expectations for the final product; 5) These eight and nine year old children, untrained in music, demonstrated that they could compose rather than just improvise; 6) These child-composers went through the same four processes of exploration, making choices, editing/drafting, and completing a coherent product, when composing in two different modalities; they engaged in these processes recursively as well as sequentially in both media.
Minutes of meeting of the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, May 7, 1943
Creators: name: Trustees Of The Winfield And Okanagan Centre Irrigation District
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2017

description: Minutes of meeting of the Trustees of the Winfield and Okanagan Centre Irrigation District, dated May 7, 1943, regarding an increase in the water rates, the Calgary Line, and the 1943 irrigation season.
Non-orthogonal Theory of Polarons and Application to Pyramidal Quantum Dots
Creators: name: Obreschkow, D.
name: Michelini, F.
name: Dalessi, S.
name: Kapon, E.
name: Dupertuis, M. -A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a general theory for semiconductor polarons in the framework of the Froehlich interaction between electrons and phonons. The latter is investigated using non-commuting phonon creation/annihilation operators associated with a natural set of non-orthogonal modes. This setting proves effective for mathematical simplification and physical interpretation and reveals a nested coupling structure of the Froehlich interaction. The theory is non-perturbative and well adapted for strong electron-phonon coupling, such as found in quantum dot (QD) structures. For those particular structures we introduce a minimal model that allows the computation and qualitative prediction of the spectrum and geometry of polarons. The model uses a generic non-orthogonal polaron basis, baptized the "natural basis". Accidental and symmetry-related electronic degeneracies are studied in detail and are shown to generate unentangled zero-shift polarons, which we consistently eliminate. As a practical example, these developments are applied to realistic pyramidal GaAs QDs. The energy spectrum and the 3D-geometry of polarons are computed and analyzed, and prove that realistic pyramidal QDs clearly fall in the regime of strong coupling. Further investigation reveals an unexpected substructure of "weakly coupled strong coupling regimes", a concept originating from overlap considerations. Using Bennett's entanglement measure, we finally propose a heuristic quantification of the coupling strength in QDs.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables
Dynamic Site Periods for the Jackson Purchase Region of Western Kentucky
Creators: name: Street, Ron
name: Wang, Zhenming
name: Woolery, Edward W.
name: Harik, Issam E.
name: Allen, David L.
name: Sutterer, Kevin G.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: Bridges, overpasses, and other engineered structures in the Jackson Purchase region of Western Kentucky are, of necessity, built on a thick column of loose to semi-consolidated sediments. Because these sediments tend to amplify seismically induced ground motions at preferred periods, structures with natural periods close to the preferred periods of amplification of the ground motions are particularly vulnerable to damages during an earthquake because of in-phase resonance.  For this report, conventional seismic refraction and reflection techniques were used to determine the shearwave velocities of the more poorly consolidated, near-surface sediments for a matrix of sites in the region. Conventional seismic P-wave reflections along with existing drill hole and seismic reflection data in the region were then used to determine the depth to the top of the bedrock at the sites investigated. These data were used in SHAKE91 to calculate the fundamental period of the ground motion at the sites. This period, identified in the study as the dynamic site period, is the period at which ground motions in the sedimentary column are most apt to be amplified as a result of a seismic shear wave propagating from the top of the bedrock to the surface. Based on the results in this report, it is recommended that bridges, overpasses, and other engineered structures built in the region be designed so that their natural periods do not coincide with the fundamental period of the sedimentary column, thereby avoiding damage during an earthquake as a result of in-phase resonance.
Analysis and Design of Bridges Susceptible to Barge Impact
Creators: name: Whitney, Michael W.
name: Harik, Issam E.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: The current American Association of State Highway Traffic Organizations (AASHTO) Guide Specification for Collision Design of Highway Bridges provides three statistical methods(methods I, II, and III) for determining the design vessel for impact analysis. These methods focus mainly on ship impact and not on barge impact design for bridges susceptible to vessel (ship or barge) impact. This is due to the tremendous variation in flotilla sizes, barge types, and barge sizes. This study presents an analysis procedure by which the statistical design methods of the AASHTO Guide Specification can be applied to inland waterway bridge design.  Design of bridges susceptible to barge impact using either AASHTO Method I or II is simplified through the use of the "equivalent static load" representation of the dynamic interaction of the barge-pier collision. However, the equivalent staticload method neglects the dynamic interaction between the individual barges in the flotilla and the bridge during the collision. Three dynamic analysis procedures are presented herein as suggested revisions to the current AASHTO equivalent static load method. The procedures are: Psuedo-Dynamic Analysis Procedure (PDAP); Impact Spectrum Analysis Procedure (ISAP); and Time History Analysis Procedure (THAP).  The results of this study makes possible true dynamic analysis and design of bridges susceptible to barge traffic. True dynamic analysis includes member loads that result from the inertial effects of the loading.
title: Roadway Related Tort Liability and Risk Management
title: 4th Edition
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Turner, Daniel S.
name: Agent, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: Kentucky Transportation Center, University of Kentucky
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Transportation Engineering

description: This training material has been prepared to address the tort liability problems faced by the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet and Kentucky local governments. The workbook defines the problem by reviewing the national picture of growing numbers of suits and escalating financial losses from suits against highway agencies.  The workbook also sets out solutions, and reviews actions which can decrease the exposure of highway agencies to these suits. This risk management concept is emphasized throughout the workbook.