cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Gesundheitskompetenzstärkung bei gewaltbetroffenen Migrantinnen
Creators: name: Crnoglavac, Violeta
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Die Professionellen der Sozialen Arbeit (SA) spielen, in der Begleitung und Unterstützung von gewaltbetroffenen Frauen, eine zentrale Rolle. Dabei wird deutlich, dass Migrantinnen oft über eine verminderte Gesundheitskompetenz verfügen. Da die Zusammenhänge von häuslicher Gewalt, Migration, transkulturellen Kompetenzen und Gesundheit weitgehend unerforscht sind, wird der folgenden Fragestellung nachgegangen: Welcher Massnahmen bedarf es im Kontext häuslicher Gewalt, aus Sicht der SA, damit betroffene Migrantinnen bezüglich ihrer spezifischen Handlungsmöglichkeiten in ihrer Gesundheitskompetenz gestärkt werden?  Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit verbindet Wissen über Migration, häusliche Gewalt und Gesundheitskompetenzstärkung mit dem Konzept der transkulturellen Kompetenz. Somit wird neues Wissen für die Praxis generiert, welche als Anregung für einen professionellen Umgang dienen soll. Der transkulturelle Umgang befasst sich vor allem mit folgenden Begrifflichkeiten: Empathie, Selbstreflexion, Hintergrundwissen und Erfahrung. Damit der transkulturelle Umgang zu einer Gesundheitskompetenzstärkung der Migrantinnen führen kann, müssen die Interventionen zudem auf Vernetzung, Ressourcenorientierung und dem Empowerment-Ansatz basieren. Sofern diese drei Faktoren beachtet werden, wird der Migrantin ermöglicht, sich im Alltag Gesundheitsinformationen zu beschaffen, so dass sie sich positiv auf ihre Gesundheit auswirken. So kann jede Person selbstbestimmt handeln und ihre Entscheidungen frei treffen. Folglich zieht jede sozialarbeiterische Intervention, welche sich nach dem Konzept der transkulturellen Kompetenz richtet, eine Gesundheitskompetenzstärkung nach sich.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa basa 2021 + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Sozialarbeit 2021 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202103
Incentive to reduce crop trait durability
Creators: name: Ambec, Stefan
name: Langinier, Corinne
name: Lemarie, Stephane
name: Ambec, Stefan
name: Langinier, Corinne
name: Lemarie, Stephane
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2005
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: Inbred line seed producers face competition from their own consumers: farmers who save part of their harvest can costly self-produce. To reduce this competition, seed producers can switch to non-durable hybrid seed production. In a two-period model, we investigate what is the impact of crop durability on self-production, pricing strategies and switching decision. We first study the pricing decisions and switching decisions of an inbred line seed monopoly. Then, we analyze how the monopoly's behavior is affected by the entry of a hybrid seed producer. We also examine how the introduction of royalties on farmers who self-produce improves efficiency. Our main finding is that, for some constellation of costs, an inbred line seed monopoly has an incentive to produce technologically dominated hybrid seed in order to extract more surplus from farmers. Along the same lines, an inbred line monopoly has an incentive to let a hybrid seed producer enters the market for discrimination purposes.
Predicting outcome in 259 fetuses with agenesis of ductus venosus – a multicenter experience and systematic review of the literature*
Creators: name: Amirhossein Moaddab
name: Tonni, Gabriele
name: Grisolia, Gianpaolo
name: Bonasoni, Maria Paola
name: Júnior, Edward Araujo
name: Lilliam Cristine Rolo
name: Prefumo, Federico
name: Fuente, Sergio De La
name: Sepulveda, Waldo
name: Ayres, Nancy
name: Ruano, Rodrigo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Objective: To evaluate prenatal predictors of postnatal survival in fetuses with agenesis of ductus venosus (ADV). Methods: This retrospective study reviewed our experience and the literature between 1991 and 2015. Prenatal findings were evaluated and perinatal morbidity and mortality was documented. Results: A total of 259 cases were included in the present analysis from our centers and 49 published studies (15 patients from our retrospective cohort review and 244 from literature review). The intrahepatic and extrahepatic shunts were present in 32.0% (73/226) and 67.7% (153/226), respectively. Cardiomegaly (n = 64/259, 24.7%), hydrops (n = 31/259, 12.0%) and amniotic fluid abnormalities (n = 22/259, 8.5%) were among the most frequent initial ultrasound findings. One hundred and forty-seven fetuses (56.8%) had ADV without structural anomalies while 112 (43.2%) had associated anomalies (cardiac anomalies (n = 66), extra-cardiac anomalies (n = 19) and both cardiac and extra-cardiac anomalies (n = 27)). The mean gestational age (GA) at ultrasound diagnosis was 22.9 ± 6.9 weeks while the mean GA at delivery was 34 ± 7.5 weeks. The overall neonatal survival was 57.1% (n = 148/259). The following factors were associated with survival: advanced maternal age, earlier GA at diagnosis, prematurity, increased nuchal translucency, pericardial effusion, associated cardiac defects (especially AVSD), chromosomal abnormalities, hydrops, hygroma and limb anomalies. Conclusion: Fetal hydrops, the presence of associated congenital anomalies and premature delivery are associated with poor prognosis in fetuses with ADV.
ESTIMATING PEANUT PRODUCTION EFFICIENCY AND ASSESSING
Creators: name: Nadolnyak, Denis A.
name: Hartarska, Valentina M.
name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
name: Nadolnyak, Denis A.
name: Hartarska, Valentina M.
name: Fletcher, Stanley M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries

description: The paper presents preliminary results of the analysis of cost efficiency of peanut production in the South-Eastern region utilizing data from the 2001 Peanut Farm Costs and Returns Survey. Stochastic cost frontier analysis using both Cobb-Douglas and translog functional forms is used as the most suitable given data availability and the nature of the industry. Estimation results are used in a discussion of the likely farm-level effects of the 2002 Farm Act, which substituted quota support with marketing assistance loan program. Contrary to our expectations, quota ownership did not significantly affect cost efficiency, which implies that quota ownership is not a discriminating factor in considering the effects of the Farm Act. Other producer characteristics, such as farm size and operator's age have significant effect on cost efficiency. These findings, however, must be treated with caution, as the survey data appears to be too noisy, and the underlying assumptions may not be appropriate due to highly regulated nature of peanut production. We plan to further refine the data, as well as to use the DEA methodology which, due to its unrestricted and flexible nature, might provide more conclusive results and deeper insights.
TESTING FOR A CHANGE IN CONSUMER TASTES FOR FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES: A STRUCTURAL LATENT VARIABLE APPROACH
Creators: name: Acharya, Ram N.
name: Molina, Ignacio
name: Acharya, Ram N.
name: Molina, Ignacio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: This study uses a structural latent variable approach to examine whether the increased supply of health information has been successful in improving consumer tastes and preferences towards fruits and vegetables and if it has been successful in doing so, how this change in tastes is affecting the consumption of various produce commodities. The results show that consumers are responding to health messages by increasing consumption of some of the produce commodities but not all of them.
Sensitivity of the Atmospheric Water Cycle within the Habitable Zone of a Tidally-Locked, Earth-like Exoplanet
Creators: name: Labonté, Marie-Pier
name: Merlis, Timothy M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Synchronously orbiting, tidally-locked exoplanets with a dayside facing their star and a permanently dark nightside orbiting dim stars are prime candidates for habitability. Simulations of these planets often show the potential to maintain an Earth-like climate with a complete hydrological cycle. Here, we examine the sensitivity of the atmospheric water cycle to changes in stellar flux and describe the main underlying mechanisms. In a slowly-rotating, tidally-locked Earth-like atmospheric model, the response to a small (about 10%) increase in stellar irradiance from a habitable-zone control simulation is examined. The water cycle is enhanced in response to the increased stellar irradiance. While the evaporation increase behaves similarly to the stellar radiation increase, the day-to-night energy transport by the mean circulation is critical to the planet's precipitation changes. Increased efficiency of the energy transport in a warmer climate shapes the substellar precipitation increase. On the nightside, precipitation changes are weak as a result of the large cancellation between the increased energy transport and the increased longwave emission. The day-to-night energy transport efficiency is sensitive to the variation of the atmosphere's vertical stratification. Due to weak temperature gradients in upper troposphere and a moist adiabat maintained in the substellar region, variations in the substellar surface temperature and specific humidity govern the increase of the planet's stratification with warming. This suggests a scaling of nightside's precipitation based on the substellar surface thermodynamic changes, a sensitivity that holds over a wider range of stellar irradiance changes.
Certainty Closure: Reliable Constraint Reasoning with Incomplete or Erroneous Data
Creators: name: Yorke-Smith, Neil
name: Gervet, Carmen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.2.3

description: Constraint Programming (CP) has proved an effective paradigm to model and solve difficult combinatorial satisfaction and optimisation problems from disparate domains. Many such problems arising from the commercial world are permeated by data uncertainty. Existing CP approaches that accommodate uncertainty are less suited to uncertainty arising due to incomplete and erroneous data, because they do not build reliable models and solutions guaranteed to address the user's genuine problem as she perceives it. Other fields such as reliable computation offer combinations of models and associated methods to handle these types of uncertain data, but lack an expressive framework characterising the resolution methodology independently of the model. We present a unifying framework that extends the CP formalism in both model and solutions, to tackle ill-defined combinatorial problems with incomplete or erroneous data. The certainty closure framework brings together modelling and solving methodologies from different fields into the CP paradigm to provide reliable and efficient approches for uncertain constraint problems. We demonstrate the applicability of the framework on a case study in network diagnosis. We define resolution forms that give generic templates, and their associated operational semantics, to derive practical solution methods for reliable solutions.
description: Revised version
Additional file 5 of Effectiveness of a blended school-based mindfulness program for the prevention of co-rumination and internalizing problems in Dutch secondary school girls: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Vuijk, Patricia
name: Bul, Kim
name: Buil, Marieke
name: Rauws, Marloes
name: Curie, Keshia
name: Amesz, Charlotte
name: Weerheijm, Ron
name: Riper, Heleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 5: Table S3. Specified duration: trainers.
Additional file 6 of Effectiveness of a blended school-based mindfulness program for the prevention of co-rumination and internalizing problems in Dutch secondary school girls: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Vuijk, Patricia
name: Bul, Kim
name: Buil, Marieke
name: Rauws, Marloes
name: Curie, Keshia
name: Amesz, Charlotte
name: Weerheijm, Ron
name: Riper, Heleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 6: Figure S3. Simplified visual representation of a multi-level, duals process latent growth model with a predictor (e.g., intervention condition), mediator (e.g., co-rumination) and outcome (e.g., internalizing problems). Ovals represent latent variables; squares represent observed variables. Double headed arrows represent (residual error) correlations, single headed arrows represent regression paths. Paths of interest are in bold.
Additional file 7 of Effectiveness of a blended school-based mindfulness program for the prevention of co-rumination and internalizing problems in Dutch secondary school girls: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Vuijk, Patricia
name: Bul, Kim
name: Buil, Marieke
name: Rauws, Marloes
name: Curie, Keshia
name: Amesz, Charlotte
name: Weerheijm, Ron
name: Riper, Heleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 7: Figure S4. Simplified visual representation of a multilevel autoregressive crossed-lagged model with a predictor (i.e., intervention condition), mediator (i.e., co-rumination) and two correlated outcome variables (i.e., internalizing problems and negative affect). Ovals represent latent variables; squares represent observed variables. Double headed arrows represent (residual error) correlations, single headed arrows represent regression paths. Paths of interest are in bold.
The 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act: Correcting a Distortion?
Creators: name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Lubowski, Ruben N.
name: Roberts, Michael J.
name: Key, Nigel D.
name: Lubowski, Ruben N.
name: Roberts, Michael J.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy

description: This study makes use of farm-level data from the Agricultural Census to evaluate the effects of the 1996 Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform (FAIR) Act, which intended to "decouple" commodity payments from production decisions. Prior to this Act, agricultural support payments were linked to production decisions via prices and a complex set of restrictions that acted to control the supply of agricultural commodities. We compare farm-level 1992-to-1997 changes in commodity crop plantings of farms that participated in government programs with farms that did not participate. We find that the growth rate of program-crop acreage of non-participants was 19 percentage points below that of participants. This estimated difference remains unchanged after we account for unobserved effects relating to farm size, type, location, and interactions of these factors using over 1900 fixed-effects variables. These results may imply that program participation rules associated with pre-1996 programs effectively acted to limit program acreage in 1992. An alternative explanation is that payments associated with decoupled programs instituted with the 1996 Act were in fact distortionary and induced farmers to produce more than they would have without the payments. Additional research would be needed to test these competing theories.
Observations of Selected AGN with H.E.S.S
Creators: name: al., F. Aharonian et
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A sample of selected active galactic nuclei (AGN) was observed in 2003 and 2004 with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.), an array of imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes in Namibia. The redshifts of these candidate very-high-energy (VHE, >100 GeV) gamma-ray emitters range from z=0.00183 to z=0.333. Significant detections were already reported for some of these objects, such as PKS 2155-304 and Markarian 421. Marginal evidence (3.1 sigma) for a signal is found from large-zenith-angle observations of Markarian 501, corresponding to an integral flux of I(>1.65 TeV) = (1.5 +/- 0.6 (stat) +/- 0.3 (syst)) x 10^{-12} cm^{-2} s^{-1} or ~15% of the Crab Nebula flux. Integral flux upper limits for 19 other AGN, based on exposures of ~1 to ~8 hrs live time, and with average energy thresholds between 160 GeV and 610 GeV, range from 0.4% to 5.1% of the Crab Nebula flux. All the upper limits are the most constraining ever reported for these objects.
description: 9 pages, 1 figure (accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics on June 16, 2005)
On the Calderon-Zygmund property of Riesz-transform type operators arising in nonlocal equations
Creators: name: Yeepo, Sasikarn
name: Lewkeeratiyutkul, Wicharn
name: Khomrutai, Sujin
name: Schikorra, Armin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We show that the operator \[ T_{K,s_1,s_2}f(z) := \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} A_{K,s_1,s_2}(z_1,z_2) f(z_2)\, dz_2 \] is a Calderon-Zygmund operator. Here for $K \in L^\infty(\mathbb{R}^n \times \mathbb{R}^n)$, and $s,s_1,s_2 \in (0,1)$ with $s_1+s_2 = 2s$ we have \[ A_{K,s_1,s_2}(z_1,z_2) = \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \frac{K(x,y) \left (|x-z_1|^{s_1-n} -|y-z_1|^{s_1-n} \right )\, \left (|x-z_2|^{s_2-n} -|y-z_2|^{s_2-n}\right )}{|x-y|^{n+2s}}\, dx\, dy. \] This operator is motivated by the recent work by Mengesha-Schikorra-Yeepo where it appeared as analogue of the Riesz transforms for the equation \[ \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \int_{\mathbb{R}^n} \frac{K(x,y) (u(x)-u(y))\, (φ(x)-φ(y))}{|x-y|^{n+2s}}\, dx\, dy = f[φ]. \]
SWEET PERSUASION: SOFT DRINKS, SCHOOL FUNDING, AND CHILDREN'S HEALTH
Creators: name: You, Wen
name: Mitchell, Paul D.
name: Davis, George C.
name: You, Wen
name: Mitchell, Paul D.
name: Davis, George C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Public Economics

description: "Pouring rights" contracts between soft drink companies and schools have created substantial controversy. Treating the issue as externality problem, we analyze the Pigouvian tax solution and propose a contract between the government and schools to provide an incentive compatible method for government to utilize the tax revenue.
The Circumstellar Environments of NML Cyg and the Cool Hypergiants
Creators: name: Schuster, Michael T.
name: Humphreys, Roberta M.
name: Marengo, Massimo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high-resolution HST WFPC2 images of compact nebulosity surrounding the cool M-type hypergiants NML Cyg, VX Sgr and S Per. The powerful OH/IR source NML Cyg exhibits a peculiar bean-shaped asymmetric nebula that is coincident with the distribution of its H2O vapor masers. We show that NML Cyg's circumstellar envelope is likely shaped by photo-dissociation from the powerful, nearby association Cyg OB2 inside the Cygnus X superbubble. The OH/IR sources VX Sgr and S Per have marginally resolved envelopes. S Per's circumstellar nebula appears elongated in a NE/SW orientation similar to that for its OH and H2O masers, while VX Sgr is embedded in a spheroidal envelope. We find no evidence for circumstellar nebulosity around the intermediate-type hypergiants rho Cas, HR 8752, HR 5171a, nor the normal M-type supergiant mu Cep. We conclude that there is no evidence for high mass loss events prior to 500-1000 yrs ago for these four stars.
description: 28 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal
Schlaflos: Über die Niederschwelligkeit von Noteinrichtungen für Jugendliche in Bern
Creators: name: Gfeller, Matthias
name: Lüdi, Timon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Das Jugendliche im öffentlichen Raum nächtigen müssen, kommt leider auch in Bern vor. Eine Tatsache, die erstaunt, da zahlreiche Noteinrichtungen vorhanden sind. Notschlafstellen oder Notunterkünfte für diese Altersgruppe existieren nicht. Diese Arbeit versucht zu klären, ob die bestehenden Angebote für die Jugendlichen direkt zugänglich, also niederschwellig sind und als Notschlafstellen dienen könnten. Dazu wird zuerst aufgezeigt, wie das Helfersystem im Kanton Bern aufgebaut ist und welche Arbeitsfelder der Sozialen Arbeit als sogenannte «First Responder» darin eingebunden sind. Niederschwelligkeit und niederschwellig sind Begriffe, welche oft für Angebote der Sozialen Arbeit benutzt werden. Um die Niederschwelligkeit oder besser gesagt die Schwellen, welche einen Zugang zu den Berner Institutionen und Angeboten erschweren, sichtbar zu machen, entwickelten die Autoren ein Analysetool, welches dies ermöglicht. Die Frage, weshalb junge Menschen in der Adoleszenz überhaupt in diese missliche Lage geraten, wird ebenso betrachtet wie die relevantesten rechtlichen Aspekte zum Thema. Durch diese Differenzierungen kann gefolgert werden, über welche Qualitäten niederschwellige Notschlafplätze verfügen sollten. Die bestehenden Berner Angebote werden nach diesen selektioniert. Bei den Angeboten, welche die Kriterien erfüllen, wurden Leitfadeninterviews mit Fachpersonen geführt. Anhand der gewonnenen Daten können Schwellen in den Angeboten, aber auch im Helfersystem sichtbar gemacht werden. Aus den ernüchternden Erkenntnissen leiten die Autoren nicht nur Handlungsempfehlungen für die SA ab. Aus ihrer Sicht müsste in Bern eine Notschlafstelle für Jugendliche geschaffen werden.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask 2021 + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Soziokultur 2021 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202103
Sustainable urban form for a democratic South Africa
Creators: name: Swanepoel, Lourette
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: "Apartheid planning...made our [South African] urban settlements extremely dysfunctional and unsustainable" and we now need to "take up the challenge of achieving sustainable cities" (Department Of Housing, 1997). However, despite the numerous new policy documents "there is no evidence of a shared vision of what planning should be trying to achieve in the 'new' South Africa" and now "urban development is occurring without a clear vision of appropriate urban form" (DPC, 1999:12; Behrens & Watson, 1996:37). This document takes on the challenge of exploring the form of sustainable cities in the new democratic South Africa, and aims to provide guidance to the planners and designers that are at the forefront of implementing this challenge. The research focuses on initiating change towards sustainability by physically altering the physical structure of our cities. The document describes the city as a hierarchical honeycomb that consists of dense neighbourhood cells that function in larger community cells. It investigates a number of issues that affect the ecological-, social-, and economic dimensions of sustainability and provides 101 design guidelines for the planning and design of sustainable communities. The research concludes with a conceptual illustration of the sustainable community and it provides direction for the implementation of these cells that incrementally heals the city through a process of gradual phasing.
Asymmetric mass ratios for bright double neutron-star mergers
Creators: name: Ferdman, R. D.
name: Freire, P. C. C.
name: Perera, B. B. P.
name: Pol, N.
name: Camilo, F.
name: Chatterjee, S.
name: Cordes, J. M.
name: Crawford, F.
name: Hessels, J. W. T.
name: Kaspi, V. M.
name: McLaughlin, M. A.
name: Parent, E.
name: Stairs, I. H.
name: van Leeuwen, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The discovery of a radioactively powered kilonova associated with the binary neutron star merger GW170817 was the first - and still only - confirmed electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave event. However, observations of late-time electromagnetic emission are in tension with the expectations from standard neutron-star merger models. Although the large measured ejecta mass is potentially explained by a progenitor system that is asymmetric in terms of the stellar component masses, i.e. with a mass ratio $q$ of 0.7-0.8, the known Galactic population of merging double neutron star (DNS) systems (i.e. those that will coalesce within billions of years or less) has, until now, only consisted of nearly equal-mass ($q > 0.9$) binaries. PSR J1913+1102 is a DNS system in a 5-hour, low-eccentricity ($e = 0.09$) orbit, implying an orbital separation of 1.8 solar radii, with the two neutron stars predicted to coalesce in 470 million years due to gravitational-wave emission. Here we report that the masses of the two neutron stars, as measured by a dedicated pulsar timing campaign, are $1.62 \pm 0.03$ and $1.27 \pm 0.03$ solar masses for the pulsar and companion neutron star, respectively; with a measured mass ratio $q = 0.78 \pm 0.03$, it is the most asymmetric DNS among known merging systems. Based on this detection, our population synthesis analysis implies that such asymmetric binaries represent between 2 and 30% (90% confidence) of the total population of merging DNS binaries. The coalescence of a member of this population offers a possible explanation for the anomalous properties of GW170817, including the observed kilonova emission from that event.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures, published in Nature on 9 July 2020 (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2439-x); this is the authors' final submitted version before review. Includes methods and supplementary information
Alltagswissen Jugend: Eine Forschung im Kanton Zug über die Jugendarbeit als Quelle der informellen und politischen Bildung für gesellschaftlich aktuelle Themen.
Creators: name: Halter, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Bildung findet schon lange nicht mehr nur im Rahmen der Schule statt. Auch die offene Jugendarbeit setzt sich immer mehr mit der Thematik auseinander und hat sich damit im Bildungssektor etablieren können. Die Autorin der vorliegenden Arbeit erforscht in den Jugend- und Gemeinwesenarbeitsstellen des Kanton Zug, wie informelle und politische Bildung betrieben wird, insbesondere, um Jugendliche und junge Erwachsene auf gesellschaftlich aktuelle Themen zu sensibilisieren. Weiter wird der Frage nach der Förderung der aktuell umgesetzten Massnahmen nachgegangen, sowie die Bedeutung davon für das Berufsfeld der offenen Jugendarbeit im Kanton Zug abgeklärt. Nach einer theoretischen Erörterung zum Thema Bildung im ausserschulischen und soziokulturellen Setting, wird die soziokulturelle Arbeit im Kanton Zug präsentiert. Darauf folgt das methodische Vorgehen, das sich vor allem auf Leitfadeninterviews und online Fragebogen sowie Umfragen stützte. Die daraus hervorgehenden Erforschungsergebnisse zeigten auf, dass in der offenen Jugendarbeit eine grosse Methodenvielfalt herrscht, um der Zielgruppe Alltagswissen näher zu bringen. Ebenso gab es vielfältige Möglichkeiten, die bestehenden Massnahmen zu fördern. Die entdeckten Lücken der Thematik werden mittels Handlungsempfehlungen geschlossen. Der aktuelle Stellenwert der offenen Jugendarbeit im Bereich Bildung wurde unterschiedlich gewertet. Grundsätzlich lässt sich jedoch vermuten, dass informelle und politische Bildung bereits ein präsentes Thema ist und damit bei den Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen klar eine nachhaltige Wirkung erzielt wird.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask 2021 + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Soziokultur 2021 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202103
The TeV gamma-ray luminosity of the Milky-Way and the contribution of H.E.S.S. unresolved sources to VHE diffuse emission
Creators: name: Cataldo, Maddalena
name: Pagliaroli, Giulia
name: Vecchiotti, Vittoria
name: Villante, Francesco Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: H.E.S.S. has recently completed a systematic survey of the Galactic plane in the TeV energy domain. We analyze the flux, latitude and longitude distributions of $γ-$ray sources observed by H.E.S.S. in order to infer the properties of Galactic TeV source population. We show that the total Milky-Way luminosity in the 1-100 TeV energy range is $L_{\rm MW} = 1.7^{+0.5}_{-0.4}\times 10^{37} {\rm ergs}\,{\rm sec}^{-1}$. Evaluating the cumulative flux expected at Earth by the considered population, we show that H.E.S.S. unresolved sources provide a relevant contribution to the diffuse Galactic emission. Finally, in the hypothesis that the majority of bright sources detected by H.E.S.S. are powered by pulsar activity, like e.g. Pulsar Wind Nebulae or TeV halos, we estimate the main properties of the pulsar population.
description: 11 pages, 5 figures
Nanometer scale resolution, multi-channel separation of spherical particles in a rocking ratchet with increasing barrier heights
Creators: name: Nicollier, Philippe
name: Schwemmer, Christian
name: Ruggeri, Francesca
name: Widmer, Daniel
name: Ma, Xiaoyu
name: Knoll, Armin W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a nanoparticle size-separation device based on a nanofluidic rocking Brownian motor. It features a ratchet-shaped electrostatic particle potential with increasing barrier heights along the particle transport direction. The sharp drop of the particle current with barrier height is exploited to separate a particle suspension into multiple sub-populations. By solving the Fokker--Planck equation, we show that the physics of the separation mechanism is governed by the energy landscape under forward tilt of the ratchet. For a given device geometry and sorting duration, the applied force is thus the only tunable parameter to increase the separation resolution. For the experimental conditions of 3.5 V applied voltage and 20 s sorting, we predict a separation resolution of $\sim 2$ nm, supported by experimental data for separating spherical gold particles of nominal 80 and 100 nm diameters.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures plus supplemental material
Additional file 8 of Effectiveness of a blended school-based mindfulness program for the prevention of co-rumination and internalizing problems in Dutch secondary school girls: a cluster randomized controlled trial
Creators: name: Vuijk, Patricia
name: Bul, Kim
name: Buil, Marieke
name: Rauws, Marloes
name: Curie, Keshia
name: Amesz, Charlotte
name: Weerheijm, Ron
name: Riper, Heleen
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Additional file 8. Statistical Analyses Plan.
Anomalous magnetic suppression of spin relaxation in a two-dimensional electron gas in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well
Creators: name: Belykh, V. V.
name: Kochiev, M. V.
name: Sob'yanin, D. N.
name: Yakovlev, D. R.
name: Bayer, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the spin dynamics in a high-mobility two-dimensional electron gas confined in a GaAs/AlGaAs quantum well. An unusual magnetic field dependence of the spin relaxation is found: as the magnetic field becomes stronger, the spin relaxation time first increases quadratically but then changes to a linear dependence, before it eventually becomes oscillatory, whereby the longitudinal and transverse times reach maximal values at even and odd filling Landau level factors, respectively. We show that the suppression of spin relaxation is due to the effect of electron gyration on the spin-orbit field, while the oscillations correspond to oscillations of the density of states appearing at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. The transition from quadratic to linear dependence can be related to a transition from classical to Bohm diffusion and reflects an anomalous behavior of the two-dimensional electron gas analogous to that observed in magnetized plasmas.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures
title: Things that matter: insights from structured objectives into the operationalization and evaluation of sustainable fisheries
Creators: name: Marentette, Julie R.
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2021

description: Objectives reflect values that matter to decision-makers, but can be challenging to articulate. This is particularly true in resource management contexts where high uncertainty amplifies the complexity of satisfying multiple conflicting objectives in an acceptable manner. Structured decision-making recommends structuring objectives into networks to assist with choosing management actions among a suite of alternatives. Here, I used content analysis (where words or concepts are identified in qualitative data, like text) to identify and structure objectives according to implicit relationships among them. Objectives were taken from Canadian laws, policies and plans for sustainable fisheries management. Resulting networks were then compared to the explicit objective structures in integrated fisheries management plans. There was a relatively high level of coherence and multiple connections between different axes of sustainability. Plans typically layered and then connected objectives to management actions regardless of the terms used to describe them. Implicit relationships among objectives may reflect the conceptual model(s) that would have informed law, policy or plan development. Networks can provide a scaffolding with which to compare how jurisdictions choose to fix means or ends objectives into law, pre-operationalize objectives, and evaluate sustainable fisheries performance. Structuring objectives helps to identify circumstances where it may be useful to base decisions on means objectives as proxies for hard-to-define ends, while also clarifying assumptions at play when that choice is made. Operational guidance for setting objectives in resource management contexts could benefit by recommending approaches to structuring objectives, in addition to aiming for measurable and time-bound objectives.
Proposal for reading out anyon qubits in non-abelian $ν= 12/5$ quantum Hall state
Creators: name: Chung, Suk Bum
name: Stone, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To detect non-abelian statistics in the $ν= 12/5$ quantum Hall state through interferometry, we apply an analysis similar to the ones proposed for the non-abelian $ν= 5/2$ quantum Hall state. The result is that the amplitude of the Aharonov-Bohm oscillation of this interference is dependent on the internal states of quasiholes, but, in contrast to the $ν= 5/2$ quantum Hall state, independent of the number of quasiholes. However, if the quasiholes are in a superposition state, it is necessary for the interferometer to have certain additional features to obtain the coefficients.
description: 16 pages, 2 figures, Latex. Reference added, some errors corrected, some content changed, some changes in the abstract
Supersymmetric Warped Conformal Field Theory
Creators: name: Chen, Bin
name: Hao, Peng-xiang
name: Liu, Yan-jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we study the supersymmetric warped conformal field theory in two dimensions. We show that the Hofman-Strominger theorem on symmetry enhancement could be generalized to the supersymmetric case. More precisely, we find that within a chiral superspace $(x^+,þ)$, a two-dimensional field theory with two translational invariance and a chiral scaling symmetry can have enhanced local symmetry, under the assumption that the dilation spectrum is discrete and non-negative. Similar to the pure bosonic case, there are two kinds of minimal models, one being $N=(1,0)$ supersymmetric conformal field theories, while the other being $N=1$ supersymmetric warped conformal field theories (SWCFT). We study the properties of SWCFT, including the representations of the algebra, the space of states and the correlation functions of the superprimaries.
description: 30 pages
APPROACHES TO MANAGEMENT AND FARM BUSINESS SUCCESS
Creators: name: McBride, William D.
name: Johnson, James D.
name: McBride, William D.
name: Johnson, James D.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Farm Management

description: Exploratory factor analysis was used to analyze responses to management questions asked a sample of U.S. cash grain farmers. Results indicate that 3 factors described farm management approaches, price negotiation, long-term cost control, and input adjustment. Price negotiation was positively associated with farm business success, but the input adjustment approach had a negative impact on farm performance.
On the Stability of J*-Homomorphisms
Creators: name: Baak, Choonkill
name: Moslehian, Mohammad Sal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 39B82, Secondary 47B48, 46L05, 39B52, 46K99, 16Wxx

description: The main purpose of this paper is to prove the generalized Hyers-Ulam-Rassias stability of J*-homomorphisms between J*-algebras.
description: 8 pages, minor corrections
On classification of projective homogeneous varieties up to motivic isomorphism
Creators: name: Semenov, N.
name: Zainoulline, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57T15; 19E15

description: We give a complete classification of anisotropic projective homogeneous varieties of dimension less than 6 up to motivic isomorphism. We give several criteria for anisotropic flag varieties of type A_n to have isomorphic motives.
description: 14 pages
SOCIAL CAPITAL AND THE REPRODUCTION OF INEQUALITY IN SOCIALLY POLARIZED ECONOMIES
Creators: name: Mogues, Tewodaj
name: Carter, Michael R.
name: Mogues, Tewodaj
name: Carter, Michael R.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: Institutional and Behavioral Economics

description: This paper explores the idea that how wealth is distributed across social groups (ethnic or language groups, gender, etc.) fundamentally affects the evolution of economic inequality. By providing microfoundations suitable for this exploration, this paper hopes to enhance our understanding of when social forces contribute to the reproduction of economic inequality, and what the relevant policy implications might be. In tackling this issue, this paper offers contributions in two domains. First, it adds a dimension to the literature on social capital. Second, it offers a modest generalization of the concepts of identity, alienation and economic polarization used by Esteban and Ray (1994). This generalization permits us to consider the multiple characteristics that shape social identity, inclusion and exclusion. It also underwrites a higher-order measure of socio-economic polarization that permits us to explore the hypothesis of Frances Stewart and others that economic inequality is most pernicious and persistent when it is socially embedded. Among other things we are able to show that holding constant the initial levels of economic polarization and inequality, increases in socio-economic polarization deepen the reproduction of economic inequality.
Search for dark matter signatures in the gamma-ray emission towards the Sun with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
Creators: name: Mazziotta, M. N.
name: Loparco, F.
name: Serini, D.
name: Cuoco, A.
name: Luque, P. De La Torre
name: Gargano, F.
name: Gustafsson, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter particles from the Galactic halo can be gravitationally trapped in the solar core or in external orbits. The enhanced density of dark matter particles either in the solar core or in external orbits can result in the annihilation of these particles producing gamma rays via long-lived intermediate states or directly outside the Sun, respectively. These processes would yield characteristic features in the energy spectrum of the subsequent gamma rays, i.e., a box-like or line-like shaped feature, respectively. We have performed a dedicated analysis using a 10-years sample of gamma-ray events from the Sun collected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope searching for spectral features in the energy spectrum as a signature of dark matter annihilation. In the scenario of gamma-ray production via long-lived mediators we have also evaluated the dark matter-nucleon spin-dependent and spin-independent scattering cross section constraints from the flux limits in a dark matter mass range from 3 GeV/c$^2$ up to about 1.8 TeV/c$^2$. In the mass range up to about 150 GeV/c$^2$ the limits are in the range $10^{-46} - 10^{-45}$ cm$^{2}$ for the spin-dependent scattering and in the range $10^{-48} - 10^{-47}$ cm$^{2}$ for the spin-independent case. The range of variation depends on the decay length of the mediator.
description: 12 pages; 7 figures; accepted by PRD
Alkoholismus im Alter: Handlungsansätze aus der Sicht der Soziokulturellen Animation
Creators: name: Horváth, Biborka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit widmet sich der Thematik Alkoholismus in der dritten Lebensphase sowie die damit verbundene Auseinandersetzung der möglichen unterstützenden Handlungsansätze aus der Sicht der Soziokulturellen Animation. Die dritte Lebensphase der „jungen Alten“ ist gekennzeichnet durch einen hohen Anteil von Menschen, welche kurz vor oder nach der Pensionierung stehen. Alkoholismus in der dritten Lebensphase ist gekennzeichnet durch verschiedene Ereignisse, wie das Wegfallen von beruflichen und familiären Verpflichtungen. Der Übergang in die nachberufliche Lebensphase führt bei vielen Menschen zum Verlust der routinierten und der bereits eingebetteten Teilhabe am gesellschaftlichen Leben. In dieser Lebensphase sind Menschen aus ihrer alten Identität herausgelöst und damit konfrontiert, sich neu zu orientieren und sich neuen, erfüllenden Aufgaben zu widmen. Doch oft hat der Alkoholismus einschneidende negative Auswirkungen und erschwert die Erhaltung der gewohnten Lebensqualität. Die Soziokulturelle Animation versucht in ihrer gesellschaftlichen Funktion, Begegnungen zwischen Menschen und Gruppen mit unterschiedlichen Lebensrealitäten zu ermöglichen und mit ihren Handlungsfeldern und Handlungsansätzen das Zusammenleben zu fördern. Das Handlungsfeld der Altenarbeit ist bisher unzureichend in der Soziokulturellen Animation etabliert und beforscht. Die Erfahrungen aus der Jugendarbeit können jedoch ansatzweise auf das neue Gebiet transferiert und angewendet werden. Die Soziokulturelle Animation kann sich auf die individuelle Lebensbewältigung, die mit Alkoholismus im Alter einhergeht, vorbehaltlos einlassen und die gesellschaftlichen Verhältnisse beeinflussen.
description: + Code Diss LU: hslusa bask 2021 + Fussnote: Bachelor-Arbeit, Hochschule Luzern – Soziale Arbeit, Studienrichtung Soziokultur 2021 + NL-Code: NLLUHSA202103
Irreversible thermodynamics of thermoelectric devices: From local framework to global description
Creators: name: Kaur, Jasleen
name: Johal, Ramandeep S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermoelectricity is traditionally explained via Onsager's irreversible, flux-force framework. The coupled flows of heat and electric charge are modelled as steady-state flows, driven by the thermodynamic forces defined in terms of the gradients of local, intensive parameters like temperature and electrochemical potential. A thermoelectric generator is a device with a finite extension, and its performance is measured in terms of total power output and total entropy generation. These global quantities are naturally expressed in terms of discrete or global forces derived from their local counterparts. We analyze the thermodynamics of thermoelectricity in terms of global flux-force relations. These relations clearly show the additional quadratic dependence of the driver flux on global forces, corresponding to the process of Joule heating. We discuss the global kinetic coefficients defined by these flux-force relations and prove that the equality of the global cross-coefficients is derived from a similar property of the local coefficients. Finally, we clarify the differences between the global framework for thermoelectric energy conversion and the recently proposed minimally nonlinear irreversible thermodynamic model.
description: Revtex4-1, 6 pages, 1 figure, Comments are welcome
Wilkens, Erwin, Rom im ökumenischen Spannungsfeld
Creators: name: Vicedom, Georg F.
Publisher: name: Ökumenische Rundschau
Year: 2025

description: Ökumenische Rundschau, Bd. 12 Nr. 2 (1963): Ökumenische Rundschau, Band 12, Heft 2
Additional file 1 of Navigating challenges: optimising methods for primary cell culture isolation
Creators: name: Piwocka, Oliwia
name: Musielak, Marika
name: Ampuła, Karolina
name: Piotrowski, Igor
name: Adamczyk, Beata
name: Fundowicz, Magdalena
name: Suchorska, Wiktoria Maria
name: Malicki, Julian
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology

description: Supplementary Material 1
WATERSHED CONSERVATION AND EFFICIENT GROUNDWATER PRICING
Creators: name: Roumasset, James A.
name: Pitafi, Basharat A.K.
name: Roumasset, James A.
name: Pitafi, Basharat A.K.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
subject: watershed conservation
subject: water pricing

description: Conserving the watershed can help to preserve the groundwater supplies by avoiding loss of recharge. Preventing overuse of available water through pricing reforms can also substantially increase benefits from groundwater stock. Since efficiency prices are generally higher than the inefficient, status quo prices, efficiency pricing may be politically infeasible and watershed conservation may be considered as an alternative. Using Pearl Harbor water district as an example, we find that pricing reform yields large welfare improvement (about $900 million) and is welfare-superior to watershed conservation unless the latter prevents over 10% loss of recharge. In addition, watershed conservation is more valuable at efficiency pricing than at the status quo prices.