cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
การจัดกลุ่มชาวญี่ปุ่นและการศึกษาความต้องการที่มีต่อการท่องเที่ยวแบบพำนักระยะยาวในประเทศไทย
Creators: name: เทียนแก้ว เลี่ยมสุวรรณ
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2022
Subjects: การจัดกลุ่มชาวญี่ปุ่น
ความต้องการของชาวญี่ปุ่น
การท่องเที่ยวแบบพำนักระยะยาว

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 12, 1, 82-106
ผลการใช้กิจกรรมการเรียนรู้ตามทฤษฎี CMM และแนวคิด RT ที่มีต่อความสามารถในการสนทนาแบบญี่ปุ่น
Creators: name: กวิตา ฟองสถาพร
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2022
Subjects: ภาษาญี่ปุ่นเป็นภาษาต่างประเทศ
การสนทนาแบบญี่ปุ่น
ทฤษฎีการจัดการความสัมพันธ์ระหว่าง ความหมายร่วมกัน
แนวคิดการอ่านบทละคร

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 12, 1, 107-117
Working on the Frontline of Public Service
Creators: name: Goodman, Emily
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: Police work can be stressful putting officers at risk of mental health difficulties. Despite this, literature suggests support seeking amongst officers is low. A meta-ethnography was conducted to synthesise qualitative research on police officers’ views and experience of support, both formal and informal, for their psychological wellbeing. A systematic search identified 14 papers. Five main constructs were developed; overarching influence of culture and stigma, the unknown professional consequences of accessing support, dual role of others: providing support and encouraging support utilisation, supervisors are the gatekeepers and addressing the unmet need of formal support. Police officers in the reviewed studies recognised the need of support for their mental wellbeing, however, faced prominent barriers to accessing this, which need to be addressed systemically. The Covid-19 pandemic created an unprecedented scenario for the UK healthcare workforce. The study aimed to explore the experiences of healthcare workers in intensive care units (ICU) responding to the pandemic, with consideration of the societal narrative surrounding the workforce. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine participants and analysed using Thematic Analysis. Four main themes were developed; ICU environment, complexity of support, coping with the experience and individual psychological outcomes, which were then used to develop a conceptual map. Overall, the pandemic was a psychologically demanding experience for participants with different influences supporting the navigation of the environment, as well as additional challenges. The critical appraisal provides an overview of the findings from both papers, establishing the links. Although police officers and healthcare workers have distinctive roles, both the empirical study and systematic review highlighted the role of societal narratives surrounding workers and the influence this may have on mental wellbeing. Limitations and future research recommendations are elaborated on. Author reflections on key considerations of the project are discussed.
บทบาทของผู้สอนในการช่วยสนับสนุนด้านการสืบค้นข้อมูลในชั้นเรียน: กรณีศึกษาผ่านการสำรวจการใช้สมาร์ตโฟนของผู้เรียนภาษาญี่ปุ่นชาวไทย
Creators: name: ธนภัส สนธิรักษ์
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2022
Subjects: บทบาทของผู้สอน
การสืบค้นข้อมูล
ชั้นเรียน
สมาร์ตโฟน
ผู้เรียนภาษาญี่ปุ่นชาวไทย

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 12, 1, 118-137
อุปสรรคในการเรียนรู้คำศัพท์คะตะคะนะและกลวิธีการเรียนรู้ของผู้เรียนภาษาญี่ปุ่นชาวไทย: กรณีศึกษาผู้เรียนวิชาเอกภาษาญี่ปุ่นระดับชั้นอุดมศึกษา
Creators: name: ธนพล อรรถเอี่ยม
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2022
Subjects: ผู้เรียนภาษาญี่ปุ่นชาวไทย
คำศัพท์คะตะคะนะ
กลวิธีการเรียนรู้
อุปสรรคการเรียนรู้

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 12, 1, 138-155
Design and properties of hollow antiresonant fibers for the visible and near infrared spectral range
Creators: name: Belardi, Walter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hollow core antiresonant fibers offer new possibilities in the near infrared and visible spectral range. I show here that the great flexibility of this technology can allow the design and fabrication of hollow core optical fibers with an extended transmission bandwidth in the near infrared and with very low optical attenuation in the visible wavelength regime. A very low attenuation of 175dB/km at 480nm is reported. A modification of the design of the studied fibers is proposed in order to achieve fast-responding gas detection.
description: 7 pages, 10 figures. Accepted for publication in IEEE Journal of Lightwave and Technology
Energy-time entanglement from a resonantly driven quantum-dot three-level system
Creators: name: Hohn, Marcel
name: Barkemeyer, Kisa
name: Von Helversen, M.
name: Bremer, L.
name: Gschrey, M.
name: Schulze, J.-H.
name: Strittmatter, A.
name: Carmele, A.
name: Rodt, S.
name: Bounouar, S.
name: Reitzenstein, Stephan
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::530 Physik::530 Physik
subject: optics
subject: quantum physics
subject: quantum-dot three-level system
subject: energy-time entanglement
subject: advanced quantum technology

description: Entanglement is a major resource in advanced quantum technology where it can enable a secure exchange of information over large distances. Energy-time entanglement is particularly attractive for its beneficial robustness in fiber-based quantum communication and can be demonstrated in the Franson interferometer. We report on Franson-type interference from a resonantly driven biexciton cascade under continuous wave excitation. Our measurements yield a maximum visibility of (73±2)% surpassing the limit of violation of Bell's inequality (70.7%) by more than one standard deviation. Despite being unable to satisfy a loophole free violation, our work demonstrates promising results concerning future studies on such a system. Furthermore, our systematical investigations on the impact of driving strength indicate that dephasing mechanisms and deviations from the cascaded emission have a major impact on the degree of the measured energy-time entanglement.
Econometric Time Series Specification Testing in a Class of Multiplicative Error Models
Creators: name: Saart, Patrick W
name: Gao, Jiti
name: Kim, Nam Hyun
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: In recent years, analysis of financial time series has focused largely on data related to market trading activity. Apart from modelling the conditional variance of returns within the GARCH family of models, presently attention has also been devoted to other market variables, especially volumes, number of trades and durations. The financial econometrics literature has focused on Multiplicative Error Models (MEMs), which are considered particularly suited for modelling certain financial variables. The paper establishes an econometric specification approach for MEMs. In the literature, several procedures are available to perform specification testing for MEMs, but the proposed specification testing method is particularly useful within the context of the MEMs of financial duration. The paper makes a number of important theoretical contributions. Both the proposed specification testing method and the associated theory are established and evaluated through simulations and real data examples.
Brucella canis toolkit List of references
Creators: name: Djokic, Vitomir
name: Freddi, Luca
name: de Massis, Fabrizio
name: Lahti, Elina
name: van den Esker, Marielle
name: Whatmore, Adrian
name: Haughey, Anna
name: Ferreira, Ana Cristina
name: Garofolo, Giuliano
name: Melzer, Falk
name: Sacchini, Flavio
name: Koets, Ad
name: Wyllie, Stephen
name: Fontbonne, Alain
name: Girault, Guillaume
name: Ferreira Vicente, Acacia
name: McGiven, John
name: Ponsart, Claire
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: List of references used as a basis for various parts of the B. canis toolkit
การใช้ “ใช้” (使う、用いる、使用する、利用する) ในภาษาญี่ปุ่น กรณีศึกษาผ่านเครื่องมือสืบค้นคลังข้อมูลภาษาออนไลน์ NINJAL-LWP for TWC
Creators: name: ณัฏฐิรา ทับทิม
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2022
Subjects: การใช้
คำความหมายคล้าย
คำปรากฏร่วม
NINJAL-LWP for TWC

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 12, 1, 156-173
ปัญหาการเกาะเกี่ยวความในเรียงความภาษาญี่ปุ่น: กรณีศึกษาผู้เรียนวิชาเอกภาษาญี่ปุ่นชาวไทย
Creators: name: กุลรัมภา เศรษฐเสถียร
Publisher: name: สมาคมญี่ปุ่นศึกษาแห่งประเทศไทย
Year: 2022
Subjects: การเกาะเกี่ยวความ
เรียงความภาษาญี่ปุ่น
โครงสร้างเรียงความ
ใจความสำคัญ
ผู้เรียนวิชาเอกภาษา ญี่ปุ่นชาวไทย

description: วารสารเครือข่ายญี่ปุ่นศึกษา, 12, 1, 174-196
Bayesian Gaussian Copula Graphical Modeling for Dupuytren Disease
Creators: name: Mohammadi, Abdolreza
name: Abegaz, Fentaw
name: Heuvel, Edwin van den
name: Wit, Ernst C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Dupuytren disease is a fibroproliferative disorder with unknown etiology that often progresses and eventually can cause permanent contractures of the affected fingers. In this paper, we provide a computationally efficient Bayesian framework to discover potential risk factors and investigate which fingers are jointly affected. Our Bayesian approach is based on Gaussian copula graphical models, which are one potential way to discover the underlying conditional independence structure of variables in multivariate mixed data. In particular, we combine the semiparametric Gaussian copula with extended rank likelihood which is appropriate to analyse multivariate mixed data with arbitrary marginal distributions. For the graph structure learning, we construct a computationally efficient search algorithm which is a trans-dimensional MCMC algorithm based on a birth-death process. In addition, to make our statistical method easily accessible to other researchers, we have implemented our method in C++ and interfaced with R software as an R package BDgraph which is available online.
title: The design, development and evaluation of GIS applications as decision support tools for ecologically aware infrastructure design
Creators: name: McCausland, Katie
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2021

description: The overall aim of this thesis was to critically evaluate how GIS can be applied to facilitate large infrastructure companies to reduce their impacts on biodiversity during the planning, design, construction of large infrastructure projects. The research was undertaken from the perspective of an infrastructure contractor, precisely the sponsor company, Costain Group Plc. The research aim was achieved through the development of geospatial applications to inform infrastructure design whilst adhering to national biodiversity initiatives in a construction design context. The most relevant initiative is ‘no net loss’, which calculates biodiversity value in units using a metric calculation by Defra (Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs). However, these metrics face criticism for over-simplifying the complexity of the natural world, in particular the neglect of the impact of fragmentation on habitats. At present, the stages of construction do not require an initial scoping of protected and managed land, and there are no statutory requirements for reducing biodiversity loss beyond the identification of invasive species. The relevant stages of construction development for a contractor are the Concept and Developed Design, which is the contextual focus of the applications developed using GIS, referred to as the GIS simulations in this thesis. The GIS simulations include the establishment of baselines for key habitats and species, which form part of the Biodiversity Action Plan, identified as a key environmental planning procedure within the sponsor company. The GIS simulations successfully visualised baseline data. The Developed Design, which involves the refinement of the Concept Design and associated strategies, identifies the geographical placement of the design. Based on this placement, spatial planning methods were used to calculate the changes in biodiversity unit values. The applications were successfully developed, but it was recommended that changes in biodiversity unit value need to include condition, obtained through surveying, before visualising impacts. In addition, specific parameters need to be justified for implementation of the approach at different sites; these can be established based on the project type, the size of the site, and local target species. The applications are considered feasible for implementation within the sponsor company, however, there needs to be more drive from the business and client to invest in more sustainable alternatives moving forward.
Data Management Plans and DMP Tools
Creators: name: Obileye, Olatunbosun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: DataCite
Data Skills
Research Data Management (RDM)
Data Management Plan (DMP)
DMP Tools
IASSIST

description: This presentation was given at the Data Skills Training Workshop for Zimbabwean Academic Librarians hosted by the Gwanda State University Library—courtesy of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST)—from 19 to 20 July 2023 at the Gwanda State University Epoch Mine Campus. Background to the Workshop
 Despite the fact that librarians are generally thought of as a potential source for helping researchers with Research Data Management (RDM), this potential has not yet been fully realized among the librarian community in Zimbabwe because they lack the specialized knowledge and skills to create a successful RDM curriculum for their research community. As a result, Zimbabwe lacks a university library that can provide reliable and high-quality RDM services. Given this background, the event aims to bring together academic librarians from Zimbabwean universities who are tasked with research data management responsibilities for the purpose of receiving training in RDM. The event strengthens RDM services at university libraries in Zimbabwe, thus advancing the IASSIST goal of fostering and supporting a network of excellence for data service delivery. The creation of a data interest group linked with IASSIST within the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium is one of the events intended outcomes. In this way, the event will create opportunities for the sharing of sound professional practices in research data management among colleagues in Zimbabwean academic libraries. This two-day event is targeting all academic librarians in Zimbabwe who are interested in learning more about how to manage research data and establishing research data management services.
Narratives of Crisis and Their Influence in Shaping Discourses and Policies of Migration and Mobility
Creators: name: D'Amato, Gianni
name: Gianni, Matteo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Migration
Research

description: Narratives of Crisis and Their Influence in Shaping Discourses and Policies of Migration and Mobility is a project of the National Center of Competence "nccr – on the move "
Estimation of Rice Price Flexibility Coefficient without Government Intervention
Creators: name: Sagong, Yong
name: Sagong, Yong
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: rice policy reform
subject: coefficient of yield
subject: coefficient of price flexibility

description: Rice price flexibility coefficients are used as a very useful tool to forecast rice price. However, changes in the price would be underestimated if the estimated coefficient in previous literature is used to forecast the rice price when there is not government intervention in the rice market. The estimated coefficient from previous literature does not consider the role of government in stabilizing the rice price using public stockholdings. The rice price stabilization policy increases demand elasticity (or decreased the coefficient of price flexibility). In this study we estimate the coefficient of price flexibility, considering the role of price stabilization policy. We find that the coefficient is 4.42, an increase from the estimates of the previous literature of 0.13 and 1.44. Therefore, we recommend that the Korean government accumulate excess production from years of good harvest to prevent a rapid fall in rice price. We also recommend that structural long-run oversupply should be adjusted by changes in rice price.
Cosmological scalar field perturbations can grow
Creators: name: Alcubierre, Miguel
name: de la Macorra, Axel
name: Diez-Tejedor, Alberto
name: Torres, José M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It has been argued that the small perturbations to the homogeneous and isotropic configurations of a canonical scalar field in an expanding universe do not grow. We show that this is not true in general, and clarify the root of the misunderstanding. We revisit a simple model in which the zero-mode of a free scalar field oscillates with high frequency around the minimum of the potential. Under this assumption the linear perturbations grow like those in the standard cold dark matter scenario, but with a Jeans length at the scale of the Compton wavelength of the scalar particle. Contrary to previous analyses in the literature our results do not rely on time-averages and/or fluid identifications, and instead we solve both analytically (in terms of a well-defined series expansion) and numerically the linearized Einstein-Klein-Gordon system. Also, we use gauge-invariant fields, which makes the physical analysis more transparent and simplifies the comparison with previous works carried out in different gauges. As a byproduct of this study we identify a time-dependent modulation of the different physical quantities associated to the background as well as the perturbations with potential observational consequences in dark matter models.
description: 9 pages, 3 figures. Discussion improved, conclusions unchanged. Matches version in print. To appear in Phys. Rev. D
Interpreting the CMS $\ell^+\ell^- jj E\!\!\!\!/_{\rm T}$ Excess with a Leptoquark Model
Creators: name: Allanach, Ben
name: Alves, Alexandre
name: Queiroz, Farinaldo S.
name: Sinha, Kuver
name: Strumia, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by excesses in $ee jj$ and $eνjj$ channels observed by the CMS collaboration, in 8 TeV LHC data, a model of lepto-quarks with mass around 500 GeV was proposed in the literature. In order to reproduce the claimed event rate, lepto-quarks were assumed to have a significant partial branching ratio into an extra sector, taken to be Dark Matter, other than the canonical $ej$. We here show that the decay channel of lepto-quark into Dark Matter can fit another excess claimed by CMS, in $\ell^+\ell^- jj E\!\!\!\!/_{\rm T}$: the event rate, the distribution in di-lepton invariant mass and the rapidity range are compatible with the data. We provide predictions for the forthcoming Run II of the 14 TeV LHC and discuss aspects of dark matter detection.
description: 6 pages, 2 figures. Version accepted in PRD
Galactic evolution of rapid neutron capture process abundances: the inhomogeneous approach
Creators: name: Wehmeyer, B.
name: Pignatari, M.
name: Thielemann, F. -K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the origin of heavy r-process elements, different sources have been proposed, e.g., core-collapse supernovae or neutron star mergers. Old metal-poor stars carry the signature of the astrophysical source(s). Among the elements dominantly made by the r-process, europium (Eu) is relatively easy to observe. In this work we simulate the evolution of europium in our galaxy with the inhomogeneous chemical evolution model 'ICE', and compare our results with spectroscopic observations. We test the most important parameters affecting the chemical evolution of Eu: (a) for neutron star mergers the coalescence time scale of the merger ($t_{\mathrm{coal}}$) and the probability to experience a neutron star merger event after two supernova explosions occurred and formed a double neutron star system ($P_{\mathrm{NSM}}$) and (b) for the sub-class of magneto-rotationally driven supernovae ("Jet-SNe"), their occurrence rate compared to standard supernovae ($P_{\mathrm{Jet-SN}}$). We find that the observed [Eu/Fe] pattern in the galaxy can be reproduced by a combination of neutron star mergers and magneto-rotationally driven supernovae as r-process sources. While neutron star mergers alone seem to set in at too high metallicities, Jet-SNe provide a cure for this deficiency at low metallicities. Furthermore, we confirm that local inhomogeneities can explain the observed large spread in the europium abundances at low metallicities. We also predict the evolution of [O/Fe] to test whether the spread in $α$-elements for inhomogeneous models agrees with observations and whether this provides constraints on supernova explosion models and their nucleosynthesis.
description: 11 Figures, Submitted to MNRAS
Specification Testing in Structural Nonparametric Cointegration
Creators: name: Dong, Chaohua
name: Gao, Jiti
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: This paper proposes two simple and new specification tests based on the use of an orthogonal series for a considerable class of cointegrated time series models with endogeneity and nonsta-tionarity. The paper then establishes an asymptotic theory for each of the proposed tests. The first test is initially proposed for the case where the regression function involved is integrable, which fills a gap in the literature, and the second test is an extended version of the first test for covering a class of non-integrable functions. Endogeneity in two general forms is allowed in the models to be tested. A potential global departure in the alternative hypothesis, which is being overlooked by the literature, is investigated. The finite sample performance of the proposed tests is examined through using several simulated examples. Meanwhile, the second test is naturally applicable to the case where there is a type of endogeneity inherited in the relationship between the United States aggregate consumers' consumption expenditure and disposable income over the period of 1960-2009. Our experience generally shows that the proposed tests are easily implementable and also have stable sizes and good power properties even when the 'distance' between the null hypothesis and a sequence of local alternatives is asymptotically negligible.
DataCite Global Access Program in Africa
Creators: name: Obileye, Olatunbosun
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: DataCite
Data Skills
Persistent Identifiers (PIDs)
Global Access Program
PID Services in Africa
IASSIST

description: This presentation was given at the Data Skills Training Workshop for Zimbabwean Academic Librarians hosted by the Gwanda State University Library—courtesy of the International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST)—from 19 to 20 July 2023 at the Gwanda State University Epoch Mine Campus. Background to the Workshop
 Despite the fact that librarians are generally thought of as a potential source for helping researchers with Research Data Management (RDM), this potential has not yet been fully realized among the librarian community in Zimbabwe because they lack the specialized knowledge and skills to create a successful RDM curriculum for their research community. As a result, Zimbabwe lacks a university library that can provide reliable and high-quality RDM services. Given this background, the event aims to bring together academic librarians from Zimbabwean universities who are tasked with research data management responsibilities for the purpose of receiving training in RDM. The event strengthens RDM services at university libraries in Zimbabwe, thus advancing the IASSIST goal of fostering and supporting a network of excellence for data service delivery. The creation of a data interest group linked with IASSIST within the Zimbabwe University Libraries Consortium is one of the events intended outcomes. In this way, the event will create opportunities for the sharing of sound professional practices in research data management among colleagues in Zimbabwean academic libraries. This two-day event is targeting all academic librarians in Zimbabwe who are interested in learning more about how to manage research data and establishing research data management services.
Supergeometry in locally covariant quantum field theory
Creators: name: Hack, Thomas-Paul
name: Hanisch, Florian
name: Schenkel, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 81T05, 58A50, 81T60, 83E50

description: In this paper we analyze supergeometric locally covariant quantum field theories. We develop suitable categories SLoc of super-Cartan supermanifolds, which generalize Lorentz manifolds in ordinary quantum field theory, and show that, starting from a few representation theoretic and geometric data, one can construct a functor A : SLoc --> S*Alg to the category of super-*-algebras which can be interpreted as a non-interacting super-quantum field theory. This construction turns out to disregard supersymmetry transformations as the morphism sets in the above categories are too small. We then solve this problem by using techniques from enriched category theory, which allows us to replace the morphism sets by suitable morphism supersets that contain supersymmetry transformations as their higher superpoints. We construct super-quantum field theories in terms of enriched functors eA : eSLoc --> eS*Alg between the enriched categories and show that supersymmetry transformations are appropriately described within the enriched framework. As examples we analyze the superparticle in 1|1-dimensions and the free Wess-Zumino model in 3|2-dimensions.
description: v1: 54 pages. v2: 56 pages. Minor corrections and modifications. To appear in Communications in Mathematical Physics
MOESM1 of Behavioral and psychological impact of returning breast density results to Latinas: study protocol for a randomized clinical trial
Creators: name: Bhavika Patel
name: Ridgeway, Jennifer
name: Ghosh, Karthik
name: Rhodes, Deborah
name: Borah, Bijan
name: Jenkins, Sarah
name: Suman, Vera
name: Norman, Aaron
name: Jewett, Matt
name: Singh, Davinder
name: Celine Vachon
name: Breitkopf, Carmen Radecki
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. SPIRIT 2013 Checklist: Recommended items to address in a clinical trial protocol and related documents.
Brucella canis outbreak case definition
Creators: name: Djokic, Vitomir
name: Freddi, Luca
name: Ferreira Vicente, Acacia
name: Girault, Guillaume
name: Asford, Roland
name: Whatmore, Adrian
name: Al Dahouk, Sascha
name: Hofreuter, Dirk
name: Melzer, Falk
name: Ferreira, Ana Cristina
name: Cacaco, Sandra
name: Pelerito, Ana
name: Garofolo, Giuliano
name: Sacchini, Flavio
name: De Massis, Fabrizio
name: Milanov, Mihail
name: Daskalov, Hristo
name: van den Esker, Marielle
name: Koets, Ad
name: Koomen, Jeroen
name: Kempfraath, Dre
name: Ponsart, Claire
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Part of the B. canis diagnostics and management toolkit, describing definition of cases.
On The Theory and Practice of Singular Spectrum Analysis Forecasting
Creators: name: Khan, M. Atikur Rahman
name: Poskitt, D.S.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: Theoretical results on the properties of forecasts obtained using singular spectrum analysis are presented in this paper. The mean squared forecast error is derived under broad regularity conditions, and it is shown that the forecasts obtained in practice will converge to their population ensemble counterparts. The theoretical results are illustrated by examining the performance of singular spectrum analysis forecasts when applied to autoregressive processes and a random walk process. Simulation experiments suggest that the asymptotic properties developed are reflected in observed finite sample behaviour. Empirical applications using real world data sets indicate that forecasts based on singular spectrum analysis are competitive with other methods currently in vogue.
Supplementary material from Reports of deaths are an exaggeration: all-cause and NAA-test-conditional mortality in Germany during the SARS-CoV-2 era
Creators: name: Rockenfeller, R.
name: Günther, M.
name: Mörl, F.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Health Care
Diseases
Epidemiology

description: Counts of SARS-CoV-2-related deaths have been key numbers for justifying severe political, social and economical measures imposed by authorities world-wide. A particular focus thereby was the concomitant excess mortality (EM), i.e. fatalities above the expected all-cause mortality (AM). Recent studies, inter alia by the WHO, estimated the SARS-CoV-2-related EM in Germany between 2020 and 2021 as high as 200 000. In this study, we attempt to scrutinize these numbers by putting them into the context of German AM since the year 2000. We propose two straightforward, age-cohort-dependent models to estimate German AM for the ‘Corona pandemic’ years, as well as the corresponding flu seasons, out of historic data. For Germany, we find overall negative EM of about due to rather than with CoViD-19; an analysis not provided by the appropriate authority, the RKI. Through 2020 and 2021 combined, our due estimate is at no more than 59 500. Varying NAA test strategies heavily obscured SARS-CoV-2-related EM, particularly within the second year of the proclaimed pandemic. We compensated changes in test strategies by assuming that age-cohort-specific NAA-conditional mortality rates during the first pandemic year reflected a SARS-CoV-2-characteristic constants.
Implementing Synthetic Aperture Radar Backprojection in Chisel – A Field Report
Creators: name: Rother, Niklas
name: Fahnemann, Christian
name: Blume, Holger
Publisher: name: New York, NY : Springer
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Chisel
subject: Hardware description languages
subject: SAR
subject: VHDL
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::620 | Ingenieurwissenschaften und Maschinenbau
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik

description: Chisel is an emerging hardware description language which is especially popular in the RISC-V community. In this report, we evaluate its application in the field of general digital hardware design. A dedicated hardware implementation of a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) processing algorithm is used as an example case for a real-world application. It is targeting a modern high performance FPGA platform. We analyze the difference in code size compared to a VHDL implementation. In contrast to related publications, we classify the code lines into several categories, providing a more detailed view. Overall, the number of lines was reduced by 74% while the amount of boilerplate code was reduced by 83%. Additionally, we report on our experience using Chisel in this practical application. We found the generative concept and the flexibility introduced by modern software paradigms superior to traditional hardware description languages. This increased productivity, especially during timing closure. However, additional programming skills not associated with classic hardware design are required to fully leverage its advantages. We recommend Chisel as a language for all hardware design tasks and expect its popularity to increase in the future.
Consumer Demand, Consumption, and Asset Pricing: An Integrated Analysis
Creators: name: Kim, H. Youn
name: McLaren, Keith R.
name: Wong, K.K. Gary
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: This paper integrates seemingly disjoint studies on consumer behavior in micro and macro analyses via the intertemporal two-stage budgeting procedure with durable goods and liquidity constraints. The model accounts for the influences of nondurables consumption, commodity prices, and durables stock on commodity demands as well as on risk aversion and asset returns. The demand functions for six nondurable goods are jointly estimated with the Euler equations for bonds, shares, and durables goods, with allowance for liquidity constraints. The integrated model proves useful with new findings for risk aversion and, particularly, an extended consumption CAPM with multiple goods and liquidity constraints.
title: 13 fundamental spatial planning exercises
title: 13 βασικές ασκήσεις χωροταξικού σχεδιασμού
Creators: name: Gourgiotis, Anestis
name: Tsilimigas, Georgios
Publisher: name: Kallipos, Open Academic Editions
Year: 2022
Subjects: Xωρικός σχεδιασμός
Περιφερειακά χωροταξικά πλαίσια
Eιδικά χωροταξικά πλαίσια
Αξιολόγηση χωροταξίας
Πολιτική χωροταξίας
Spatial planning
Regional spatial frameworks
Specific spatial frameworks
Spatial evaluation
Spatial planning policy

description: This handbook is a tool for applied spatial planning and focuses on the analysis at the regional level and the evaluation of regional spatial frameworks. The rationale of the manual is to provide students with the necessary knowledge in the analysis and evaluation of spatial planning at the regional level, taking into account the Greek institutional and spatial reality. A presentation of the subject matter to be analysed and evaluated is given in each case, followed by specific examples, cartographic and diagrammatic material from existing evaluations of Regional Spatial Planning Frameworks.
description: Το εγχειρίδιο αυτό αποτελεί ένα εργαλείο εφαρμοσμένης χωροταξίας και εστιάζει στην ανάλυση σε περιφερειακό επίπεδο και στην αξιολόγηση των περιφερειακών χωροταξικών πλαισίων. Η λογική του εγχειριδίου είναι να δώσει τις απαραίτητες γνώσεις στους φοιτητές στην ανάλυση και αξιολόγηση του χωροταξικού σχεδιασμού περιφερειακού επιπέδου, λαμβάνοντας υπόψη την ελληνική θεσμική και χωρική πραγματικότητα. Γίνεται παρουσίαση του αντικειμένου κάθε φορά προς ανάλυση- αξιολόγηση και στη συνέχεια παρατίθενται συγκεκριμένα παραδείγματα, χαρτογραφικό και διαγραμματικό υλικό από υπαρκτές αξιολογήσεις των Περιφερειακών Χωροταξικών Πλαισίων.
An exploration of methodologies to improve semi-supervised hierarchical clustering with knowledge-based constraints
Creators: name: Aljohani, Abeer
Publisher: name: Loughborough University
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 89999 Information and Computing Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Clustering algorithms with constraints (also known as semi-supervised clustering algorithms) have been introduced to the field of machine learning as a significant variant to the conventional unsupervised clustering learning algorithms. They have been demonstrated to achieve better performance due to integrating prior knowledge during the clustering process, that enables uncovering relevant useful information from the data being clustered. However, the research conducted within the context of developing semi-supervised hierarchical clustering techniques are still an open and active investigation area. Majority of current semi-supervised clustering algorithms are developed as partitional clustering (PC) methods and only few research efforts have been made on developing semi-supervised hierarchical clustering methods. The aim of this research is to enhance hierarchical clustering (HC) algorithms based on prior knowledge, by adopting novel methodologies. [Continues.]
Prevention of submicron aerosolized particle dispersion: evaluation of an aerosol box using a pediatric simulation model
Creators: name: Tabone, Laurence
name: Rivest, Dominic
name: Levy, Arielle
name: Buyck, Michael
name: Jouvet, Philippe
name: Aubin, Carl-Eric
name: François, Tine
name: Robert, Etienne
name: Baudin, Florent
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 20199 Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry

description: Background and Aim: The SplashGuard CG (SG) is a barrier enclosure developed to protect healthcare workers from SARS-CoV-2 transmission during aerosol-generating procedures. Our objective was to evaluate the protection provided by the SG against aerosolized particles (AP), using a pediatric simulation model of spontaneous ventilation (SV) and noninvasive ventilation (NIV). Methods: An aerosol generator was connected to the airways of a pediatric high-fidelity manikin with a breathing simulator. AP concentrations were measured both in SV and NIV in the following conditions: with and without SG, inside and outside the SG, with and without suction applied to the device. Results: In the SV simulated setting, AP peaks were lower with SG: 0.1 × 105 particles/L compared to without: 1.6 × 105, only when the ports were closed and suction applied. In the NIV simulated setting, AP peaks outside the SG were lower than without SG (20.5 × 105 particles/L), whatever the situation, without suction (14.4 × 105particles/L), with suction and ports open or closed: 10.3 and 0.7 × 105 particles/L. In SV and NIV simulated settings, the AP peaks measured within the SG were much higher than the AP peaks measured without SG, even when suction was applied to the device. Conclusions: The SG seems to decrease peak AP exposure in the 2 ventilation contexts, but only with closed port and suction in SV. However, high concentrations of AP remain inside even with suction and SG should be used cautiously.
Production and quality assessment of biodiesel obtained by thermal process from wet microalgae biomass of Choricystis minor var. minor
Creators: name: Menezes, R. S.
name: Soares, A. T.
name: Castro, J. C. T.
name: Alves, M. I. R.
name: Lopes, R. G.
name: Cruz, Y. R.
name: Monteiro, M. F.
name: Carliz, R. G.
name: Aranda, D. A. G.
name: Derner, R. B.
name: Filho, N. R. Antoniosi
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The microalgae Choricystis minor var. minor stand out as a potential source of lipids. In this study, it was evaluated the cultivate, on a pilot scale, the microalgae freshwater Choricistis minor var. minor, and the evaluation of biodiesel production from wet biomass using the pressure heating route of wet biomass followed by esterification and subsequent transesterification, as well as how the quality of the produced biodiesel was evaluated. The process of centrifugation was adequate since it allows obtaining a concentrated biomass with a water content of approximately 76%. The biomass showed high total lipid content (22%) and adequate conversion of these lipids into biodiesel. The pilot scale cultivation in open tanks showed a volumetric productivity with a production potential of six tons of biodiesel per hectare per year. Biodiesel production via the biomass pressure heating route followed by subsequent transesterification produced a biodiesel that meets most quality parameters. Some parameters still need to be adjusted, such as sulfur and ester contents. The processes of cultivation, isolation and conversion to biodiesel proposed in this work are an adequate alternative to the production of biodiesel using microalgae, with some improvements in the biodiesel purification process.
Econometric Modelling of Price Response by Alcohol Types to Inform Alcohol Tax Policies
Creators: name: Srivastava, Preety
name: McLaren, Keith R.
name: Wohlgenant, Michael
name: Zhao, Xueyan
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: The paper presents estimates of price elasticities of demand for twelve disaggregated alcohol beverages in Australia: premium beer, full strength beer, low alcohol beer, and mid strength beer; red bottled wine, white bottled wine, sparkling wine, cask wine, and dark and light ready-to-drink (RTD); and dark and light spirits. These disaggregated categories correspond closely to the commodities of interest to public policymakers with respect to taxation and health policies. The system of demand equations is estimated with Nielsen data from Australia using the semiflexible AIDS model in order to impose negative semidefiniteness on the demand parameters. Results indicate elastic own-price elasticities for virtually all commodities. Morishma elasticities of substitution indicate premium beer, mid strength beer, and cask wine exhibit the largest elasticities of substitution. Low alcohol beer, light RTD, and light spirits show the lowest substitution. The elasticity estimates are used to illustrate the effect of a change in the current tax system toward taxation equalisation based on alcohol content. The policy simulation highlights the importance of having a complete system of demand elasticities because the mix of consumption of alcohol beverages changes in response to the type of alcohol policy.
The Geometry and Moduli of K3 Surfaces
Creators: name: Harder, Andrew
name: Thompson, Alan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J28

description: These notes will give an introduction to the theory of K3 surfaces. We begin with some general results on K3 surfaces, including the construction of their moduli space and some of its properties. We then move on to focus on the theory of polarized K3 surfaces, studying their moduli, degenerations and the compactification problem. This theory is then further enhanced to a discussion of lattice polarized K3 surfaces, which provide a rich source of explicit examples, including a large class of lattice polarizations coming from elliptic fibrations. Finally, we conclude by discussing the ample and Kahler cones of K3 surfaces, and give some of their applications.
description: 34 pages, 2 figures. (R. Laza, M. Schutt and N. Yui, eds.)
A Class of Demand Systems Satisfying Global Regularity and Having Complete Rank Flexibility
Creators: name: McLaren, Keith R.
name: Yang, Ou
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Econometric and statistical methods
Econometrics not elsewhere classified

description: A class of demand systems based on simple parametric specification of the indirect utility functions, but allowing for the parsimonious imposition of global regularity, is proposed. Demand systems in this class are completely flexible in rank, i.e., can be potentially specified to acquire as large a rank as required in empirical work. They also exhibit a clear and reasonable homothetic asymptotic behaviour. In an empirical application using Australian data, several examples from this class are estimated and compared with some popular alternatives in the literature.
On neutrino and charged lepton masses and mixings: A view from the electroweak-scale right-handed neutrino model
Creators: name: Hung, P. Q.
name: Le, Trinh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a model of neutrino masses within the framework of the EW-$ν_R$ model in which the experimentally desired form of the PMNS matrix is obtained by applying an $A_4$ symmetry to the \emph{Higgs singlet sector} responsible for the neutrino Dirac mass matrix. This mechanism naturally avoids potential conflict with the LHC data which severely constrains the Higgs sector, in particular the Higgs doublets. Moreover, by making a simple $ans\ddot{a}tz$ we extract $\mathcal{M}_l {\mathcal{M}_l}^\dagger$ for the charged lepton sector. A similar $ans\ddot{a}tz$ is proposed for the quark sector. The sources of masses for the neutrinos are entirely different from those for the charged leptons and for the quarks and this might explain why $U_{PMNS}$ is {\em very different} from $V_{CKM}$.
description: 19 pages. Two figures
Vanishing Beta Function curves from the Functional Renormalisation Group
Creators: name: Mati, P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we will discuss the derivation of the so-called vanishing beta function curves which can be used to explore the fixed point structure of the theory under consideration. This can be applied to the O($N$) symmetric theories, essentially, for arbitrary dimensions ($D$) and field component ($N$). We will show the restoration of the Mermin-Wagner theorem for theories defined in $D\leq2$ and the presence of the Wilson-Fisher fixed point in $24$. Interestingly, one needs to make an excursion to the complex plane to see the triviality of the four-dimensional O($N$) theories. The large-$N$ analysis shows a new fixed point candidate in $44$?" [Phys. Rev. D 90, 107702 (2014)].
description: 29 pages, 44 figures, uses revtex4-1, some minor improvements, Appendix is added