cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Counterterms, Kounterterms, and the variational problem in AdS gravity
Creators: name: Anastasiou, Giorgos
name: Miskovic, Olivera
name: Olea, Rodrigo
name: Papadimitriou, Ioannis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the Kounterterms for pure AdS gravity in arbitrary even dimensions coincide with the boundary counterterms obtained through holographic renormalization if and only if the boundary Weyl tensor vanishes. In particular, the Kounterterms lead to a well posed variational problem for generic asymptotically locally AdS manifolds only in four dimensions. We determine the exact form of the counterterms for conformally flat boundaries and demonstrate that, in even dimensions, the Kounterterms take exactly the same form. This agreement can be understood as a consequence of Anderson's theorem for the renormalized volume of conformally compact Einstein 4-manifolds and its higher dimensional generalizations by Albin and Chang, Qing and Yang. For odd dimensional asymptotically locally AdS manifolds with a conformally flat boundary, the Kounterterms coincide with the boundary counterterms except for the logarithmic divergence associated with the holographic conformal anomaly, and finite local terms.
description: 48 pages
Linear scaling Krylov subspace method for large scale {\it ab initio} electronic structure calculations of metals
Creators: name: Ozaki, Taisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An efficient and robust linear scaling method is presented for large scale {\it ab initio} electronic structure calculations of a wide variety of materials including metals. The detailed short range and the effective long range contributions to the electronic structure are taken into account by solving an embedded cluster defined in a Krylov subspace, which provides rapid convergence for not only insulators but also metals. As an illustration of the method, we present a large scale calculation based on density functional theory for a palladium cluster with a single iron impurity.
description: 4 pages, 4 figures
Reinforcing the Resilience of Complex Networks
Creators: name: Costa, Luciano da Fontoura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Given a connected network, it can be augmented by applying a growing strategy (e.g. random or scale-free rules) over the previously existing structure. Another approach for augmentation, recently introduced, involves incorporating a direct edge between any two nodes which are found to be connected through at least one self-avoiding path of length L. This work investigates the resilience of random and scale-free models augmented by using the three schemes identified above. Considering random and scale-free networks, their giant cluster are identified and reinforced, then the resilience of the resulting networks with respect to highest degree node attack is quantified through simulations. The results, which indicate that substantial reinforcement of the resilience of complex networks can be achieved by the expansions, also confirm the superior robustness of the random expansion.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
An asymmetrical justification of deduction : ending the sceptical debate
Creators: name: Edwards, Patrick
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibility of answering the sceptic's demand for a non-dogmatic beliefs. In order to do justice to the sceptic's demand, we will first take time to carefully develop the strongest sceptical position possible. This will be done by considering a selection of sceptical positions dating from ancient Greece, through the early modern period, to the twentieth-century. We will use the law of non-contradiction both to lend structure to this historical taxonomy, and to act as a measure of sceptical rigour. It will be argued that Arcesilaus's scepticism marks the closest approximation of the sceptical ideal, yet, he, too, remains dogmatic to some extent. The twentieth-century discussion will focus on Susan Haack's investigation into the justification of deduction. It will be argued that her treatment of the justifications of deduction and induction as symmetrical is misguided: there is an asymmetry between the two justifications. Next, it will be shown that this asymmetry results from the permissibility of a circular justification of deduction. We will examine the implications of such a circular justification and how they relate to the sceptical debate. Ultimately, it will be shown that the sceptic's demand for justification without dogmatic beliefs is itself dogmatic and circular. Thus, it will be shown that the sceptic need not be answered for the plain fact that no such non-dogmatic sceptic could exist.
Additional file 1 of People living with HIV’s perspectives of acceptability of fee for home delivery of ART: a qualitative study
Creators: name: Ntinga, Xolani
name: Musiello, Franco
name: Pita, Thembelihle
name: Mabaso, Nomagugu
name: Celum, Connie
name: Szpiro, Adam
name: van Rooyen, Heidi
name: Barnabas, Ruanne
name: van Heerden, Alastair
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Book Review: Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship, and Rights
Creators: name: McGee, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160602 Citizenship
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: 160303 Migration
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 220104 Human Rights and Justice Issues
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion

description: Fully Human: Personhood, Citizenship and Rights, by international human rights scholar Lindsey N. Kingston, is an ambitious academic study of the global hierarchies of belonging.
[...] In presenting the problems around non-functioning citizenship, Kingston’s book helps to recognize the reality that “citizenship itself is a gradient category, with most people fit-ting on a spectrum somewhere between full and noncitizen-ship” (221). However, the richness of her case studies naturally presents challenges in bringing these disparate contexts into robust analytical conversation. Her call for a reassessment of how the institution of citizenship functions (or does not) raises the question of whether state recognition can ever ultimately be fully inclusive. As she points out, if rights are attached to citizenship (and its effectiveness), we are ultimately dealing with a politically limited model of equality. More functioning forms of citizenship can partially ameliorate, but not eliminate, this systemic problem of modern human rights.
A Study of QSO Evolution in the X-Ray Band with the Aid of Gravitational Lensing
Creators: name: Dai, Xinyu
name: Chartas, George
name: Eracleous, Michael
name: Garmire, Gordon P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a mini-survey of relatively high redshift (1.7 < z < 4) gravitationally lensed radio-quiet quasars observed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory and with XMM-Newton. The lensing magnification effect allows us to search for changes in quasar spectroscopic and flux variability properties with redshift over three orders of magnitude in intrinsic X-ray luminosity. It extends the study of quasar properties to unlensed X-ray flux levels as low as a few times 10^{-15} erg cm^{-2} s^{-1} in the observed 0.4-8 keV band. We find a possible correlation between the X-ray powerlaw photon index and X-ray luminosity of the gravitationally lensed radio-quiet quasar sample. The X-ray spectral slope steepens as the X-ray luminosity increases. This correlation is still significant when we combine our data with other samples of radio-quiet quasars with z > 1.5, especially in the low luminosity range between 10^{43}-10^{45.5} erg s^{-1}. This result is surprising considering that such a correlation is not found for quasars with redshifts below 1.5. We suggest that this correlation can be understood in the context of the hot-corona model for X-ray emission from quasar accretion disks, under the hypothesis that the quasars in our sample accrete very close to their Eddington limits and the observed luminosity range is set by the range of black hole masses (this hypothesis is consistent with recent predictions of semi-analytic models for quasar evolution). The upper limits of X-ray variability of our relatively high redshift sample of lensed quasars are consistent with the known correlation between variability and luminosity observed in Seyfert 1s when this correlation is extrapolated to the larger luminosities of our sample.
description: 21 pages, including 6 tables, 7 figures, accepted by ApJ
Enhanced scattering between electrons and exciton-polaritons in a microcavity
Creators: name: Li, Guangyao
name: Bleu, Olivier
name: Parish, Meera M.
name: Levinsen, Jesper
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: The interplay between strong light-matter interactions and charge doping represents an important frontier in the pursuit of exotic many-body physics and optoelectronics. Here, we consider a simplified model of a two-dimensional semiconductor embedded in a microcavity, where the interactions between electrons and holes are strongly screened, allowing us to develop a diagrammatic formalism for this system with an analytic expression for the exciton-polariton propagator. We apply this to the scattering of spin-polarized polaritons and electrons, and show that this is strongly enhanced compared with exciton-electron interactions. As we argue, this counter-intuitive result is a consequence of the shift of the collision energy due to the strong light-matter coupling, and hence this is a generic feature that applies also for more realistic electron-hole and electron-electron interactions. We furthermore demonstrate that the lack of Galilean invariance inherent in the light-matter coupled system can lead to a narrow resonance-like feature for polariton-electron interactions close to the polariton inflection point. Our results are potentially important for realizing tunable light-mediated interactions between charged particles.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures
Superconductivity in silicon nanostructures
Creators: name: Bagraev, N. T.
name: Gehlhoff, W.
name: Klyachkin, L. E.
name: Malyarenko, A. M.
name: Romanov, V. V.
name: Rykov, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the findings of the superconductivity observed in the silicon nanostructures prepared by short time diffusion of boron on the n-type Si(100) surface. These Si-based nanostructures represent the p-type ultra-narrow self-assembled silicon quantum wells, 2nm, confined by the delta - barriers heavily doped with boron, 3nm. The EPR and the thermo-emf studies show that the delta - barriers appear to consist of the trigonal dipole centres, which are caused by the negative-U reconstruction of the shallow boron acceptors. Using the CV and thermo-emf techniques, the transport of two-dimensional holes inside SQW is demonstrated to be accompanied by single-hole tunneling through these negative-U centres that results in the superconductivity of the delta - barriers. The values of the correlation gaps obtained from these measurements are in a good agreement with the data derived from the temperature and magnetic field dependencies of the magnetic susceptibility, which reveal a strong diamagnetism and additionally identify the superconductor gap value.
description: 4 pages, 6 figures, presented at the 4th International Conference on Vortex Matter in Superconductors, Crete, Greece, September 3-9, 2005
Hoiho tracking: 21 March - 20 April 2020
Creators: name: Mattern, Thomas
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60201 Behavioural Ecology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: 60205 Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology)
subject: 60207 Population Ecology

description: The final three pre-moult deployments at Papanui Beach were successfully concluded with all devices recovered the weekend prior to the Covid-19 lockdown. The three birds (all males) showed marked individual variation in their foraging distribution with little overlap between the birds. One hoiho foraged mainly south of Papanui and the second bird utilized the region to the east and northeast. The third penguin performed a single overnight trip to the North reaching the foraging zones of penguins from Bobby’s Head; the bird entered the moult after this trip and did not perform any further foraging trips. Field work was suspended for the following four weeks, primarily because hoiho along the mainland coast were undergoing the annual moult. Instead, we focused on the analysis of the substantial dive data that was recorded in the previous months, starting with the most recently collected data sets. In this report we provide the results of the dive analysis of the Papanui data set. The analysis process is explained, and individual trip statistics are provided in an extensive supplementary section.
Cubic threefolds and abelian varieties of dimension five
Creators: name: Casalaina-Martin, Sebastian
name: Friedman, Robert
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14J30, 14H40 (primary), 14C34, 14C35, 14K25 (secondary)

description: This paper proves the following converse to a theorem of Mumford: Let $A$ be a principally polarized abelian variety of dimension five, whose theta divisor has a unique singular point, and suppose that the multiplicity of the singular point is three. Then $A$ is isomorphic as a principally polarized abelian variety to the intermediate Jacobian of a smooth cubic threefold. The method of proof is to analyze the possible singularities of the theta divisor of $A$, and eventually to show that $A$ is the Prym variety of a possibly singular plane quintic.
description: LaTeX, 34 pages, one theorem strengthened, improved historical discussion, references added
Message Passing Fluids: molecules as processes in parallel computational fluids
Creators: name: Argentini, Gianluca
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In this paper we present the concept of MPF, Message Passing Fluid, an abstract fluid where the molecules move by mean of the informations that they exchange each other, on the basis of rules and methods of a generalized Cellular Automaton. The model is intended for its simulation by mean of message passing libraries on the field of parallel computing. We present a critical analysis of the necessary computational effort in a possible implementation of such an object.
description: 6 pages; Computational Fluid Dynamics, Message Passing, Parallel Computing
CARACTERIZACIÓN GENÉTICA, MORFOLÓGICA Y RELACIONES FILOGENÉTICAS DE LA FAMILIA OCTOPODIDAE DEL PACÍFICO MEXICANO
Creators: name: Cárdenas, Ricardo Pliego
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 50202 Conservation and Biodiversity
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology

description: PhD Thesis
From Colds to Cancer: The Immune System's Role in Protecting You
Creators: name: Manisha ChoudharyPhD Scholar, Animal Biotechnology, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal Dr. Gagan Chawla. MVSc, Department of Veterinary Physiology, National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal
Publisher: name: veterinary today
Year: 2024

description: y protects us from harmful substances, bacteria, viruses and other pathogens that might cause illness. Our body has defence mechanism that not only detect and combat infections, but also provide us immunological memory. Without an immune system, our body don’t have any self defence mechanism to protect it from any harmful pathogen or antigen.
Förderfaktoren und Unterstützungsmassnahmen für einen gelingenden Übertritt von ISR-Schüler*innen von der Sekundarschule in die berufliche Ausbildung
Creators: name: Hartmann, Maja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
integrierte Sonderschüler
Sekundarschule
berufliche Ausbildung
Masterarbeit

description: Integrierte Sonderschüler*innen in der Regelschule haben einen hohen besonderen Bildungsbedarf und werden dementsprechend mit individuellen Lernzielen gefördert. Sie erreichen minimale fachliche Kompetenzen bei Schulabschluss häufig nur knapp oder gar nicht. Dennoch ist der Übergang in eine berufliche Ausbildung das Ziel der Sekundarschule. Diese Arbeit widmet sich der Frage, wie die Förderung dieser Lernenden konkret gestaltet werden soll und welche weiteren Unterstützungsmassnahmen ergriffen werden sollen, damit dieser Anschluss an eine berufliche Ausbildung möglichst optimal gelingt.
 In der vorliegenden qualitativen Studie werden ein betroffener Lernender, dessen Mutter, Berufsbildnerin und eine Jobcoachin zu ihren Erfahrungen befragt. Die Auswertung der Daten zeigt, dass die praktische Arbeitserfahrung in verschiedenen Berufen ein zentrales Element in der Berufsorientierung darstellt, da das theoretische Vergleichen der Berufe mit den eigenen Interessen den kognitiv schwächeren Jugendlichen Mühe bereitet. Weitere Förderbereiche bilden die Stärkung der überfachlichen Kompetenzen mittels Reflexionen und die Ausrichtung der Förderung von fachlichen Kompetenzen auf die Erfordernisse der gewählten Berufe.
 In der praktischen Umsetzung bedeutet das einen intensiven Einsatz und Informationsaustausch aller am Berufswahlprozess beteiligten Akteure.
title: Electrifying the streets : the surface-contact controversy in five English towns 1880-1920
Creators: name: Colley, Gerald
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2015

description: The turn of the nineteenth century was an exciting time for urban transport innovation. Inventors and entrepreneurs sought a power source that was efficient and economical. In some towns, however, other considerations were equally important in choices about transport mode and subsequent operation. Technology, socio-cultural, political, and economic concerns, as well as environmental and aesthetic considerations were all factors. This research considers their influence in the social shaping of the design and implementation processes.

Opposition to overhead tram traction was widespread but quickly overcome inmost towns. However, after lengthy debates, five towns in England opted for the surface-contact system. Of these, Wolverhampton and Hastings are the main focus for this research because they occupy opposite ends of the social and political spectrum. Lincoln, Torquay, and Mexborough, where surface-contact traction survived for some time, are covered in less detail.

Most historians of technology regard surface-contact tram traction as a failure anda temporary deviation from electric traction development. They maintain that surface-contact was technologically and economically unattractive compared to conventional overhead systems. More recent historians have suggested that aesthetic arguments were a surrogate for other interests. Through an analysis of primary and secondary source material, this thesis investigates those claims. It finds that despite technical difficulties, surface-contact traction survived for several years in the five towns, fulfilling the aesthetic ideals of the time and supporting economic and social development in the process. To this extent, the thesis judges surface-contact to have been a success.

The evolution of urban transport, the development of the towns, and social dynamics including networks of power are all covered, together with aesthetic,environmental and economic considerations, as well as political and commercial pressures. The thesis examines how these diverse issues influenced decisions,and concludes there was no single factor that prompted either adoption or abandonment.
On the Hochschild homology of quantum SL(N)
Creators: name: Hadfield, Tom
name: Kraehmer, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: Rings and Algebras (math.RA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 16E40, 16W35

description: We show that the standard quantized coordinate ring A of quantum SL(N) satisfies van den Bergh's analogue of Poincare duality for Hochschild (co)homology with dualizing bimodule being A_sigma, the A-bimodule which is A as k-vector space with right multiplication twisted by the modular automorphism sigma of the Haar functional. This implies that H_{N^2-1} (A, A_sigma)=k, generalizing our previous results for quantum SL(2).
description: 5 pages, no figures. Final version accepted for publication
Super-Heavy Ions Acceleration Driven by Ultrashort Laser Pulses at Ultrahigh Intensity
Creators: name: Wang, Pengjie
name: Gong, Zheng
name: Lee, Seong Geun
name: Shou, Yinren
name: Geng, Yixing
name: Jeon, Cheonha
name: Kim, I Jong
name: Lee, Hwang Woon
name: Yoon, Jin Woo
name: Sung, Jae Hee
name: Lee, Seong Ku
name: Kong, Defeng
name: Liu, Jianbo
name: Mei, Zhusong
name: Cao, Zhengxuan
name: Pan, Zhuo
name: Choi, Il Woo
name: Yan, Xueqing
name: Nam, Chang Hee
name: Ma, Wenjun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The acceleration of super-heavy ions (SHIs) from plasmas driven by ultrashort (tens of femtoseconds) laser pulses is a challenging topic waiting for breakthrough. The detecting and controlling of the ionization process, and the adoption of the optimal acceleration scheme are crucial for the generation of highly energetic SHIs. Here, we report the experimental results on the generation of deeply ionized super-heavy ions (Au) with unprecedented energy of 1.2 GeV utilizing ultrashort laser pulses (22 fs) at the intensity of 10^22 W/cm2. A novel self-calibrated diagnostic method was developed to acquire the absolute energy spectra and charge state distributions of Au ions abundant at the charge state of 51+ and reaching up to 61+. The measured charge state distributions supported by 2D particle-in-cell simulations serves as an additional tool to inspect the ionization dynamics associated with SHI acceleration, revealing that the laser intensity is the crucial parameter for the acceleration of Au ions over the pulse duration. The use of double-layer targets results in a prolongation of the acceleration time without sacrificing the strength of acceleration field, which is highly favorable for the generation of high-energy super heavy ions.
ФАКТОРЫ ИЗУЧЕНИЯ МИРОВОЙ ЦИВИЛИЗАЦИИ ЧЕРЕЗ ИЗОБРАЗИТЕЛЬНОЕ ИСКУССТВО
Creators: name: Толипова, Васила
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В данной статье изобразительное искусство рассматривается как средство познания мира. Искусство анализируется с художественной и научной точки зрения. Актуальность темы статьи выражается в недостаточной изученности научного подхода в изобразительном искусстве, который ближе к научному знанию, чем другие виды художественного восприятия мира, и противоречивости в оценке исследований.
Tairiku Nippo The Continental Daily News
大陸日報
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Vancouver, BC : Tairiku Nippŏsha
Year: 2015

description: 鉱夫の決心（鑛夫の決心）, kōfu no kesshin;皇后陛下に謝電, kōgō heika ni shaden;伊土戦争と列国（伊土戰争と列國）, I-To sensō to rekkoku
MIGNEX Policy Brief D9.5 (a) - Should the EU give up on readmission agreements as a foreign policy tool?
Creators: name: Ike, Niels
name: Lebon-McGregor, Elaine
name: Jumbert, Maria Gabrielsen
name: Bala Akal, Ayşe
Publisher: name: Peace Research Institute Oslo
Year: 2024

description: As seen in Nigeria, with the decoupling of visa facilitation from readmission agreements, the EU lacks an effective incentive for negotiations with partner countries, yet seeks to incentivise with financial aid, trade agreements and other prospective partnerships.

Key Takeaways

As visa facilitation agreements appear to lose popularity within the broader political discourse, the EU attempts to decouple visa facilitation from readmission agreements.

A focus on return without adequate consideration of other aspects of migration may lead to ineffective negotiations and incoherent policies.

If the EU is to sign readmission agreements, it needs to offer incentives of national interest to partner countries.
Complex Energy Method in 4-Body Faddeev-Yakubovsky Equations
Creators: name: Uzu, E.
name: Kamada, H.
name: Koike, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Complex Energy Method [Prog. Theor. Phys. {\bf 109}, 869L (2003)] is applied to the 4-body Faddeev-Yakubovsky equations in the 4-nucleon system. We obtain a well converged solution in all energy regions below and above the 4-nucleon break-up threshold.
description: 4 pages (ReVTeX), 4 figures, Phys. Rev. C, in printing
Score and structure in ritual representation : meanings of the notational form in Sarum processional images
Creators: name: Kemp, Jamie L
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This research project examines an intriguing type of depictions which can be found within Sarum processional manuscripts, a genre of liturgical books which were produced between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. The central focus is a specific example from Norwich which was produced between the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries. I propose that their flat, ordered, and geometrically arranged mode of representation can be best understood when considered in relation to the semantic characteristics of notational systems. Their visual form signals that they are not representations of idiosyncratic events which have happened in the past, but are instead authoritative prescriptive layouts. They illustrate what important objects are required for the performance of a ritual and the number, status and position of the participants that will need to be in attendance. Thus, I argue that the viewer is not intended to be a passive witness to a scene taking place in the image, but is instead a presumed participant in a future performance of a specific character. Three arguments are introduced to lend support to the thesis. The first presents historical evidence which illustrates the authoritative role given to these books. The text discusses their widespread use and argues that this authoritative role may have been the result of a deliberate strategy on the part of the individuals seeking to increase the circulation of the books associated with the Sarum Use. The second argument is based on the examination of the relationships between the images and the texts found within the books. It states that the images do not present sufficient information to be considered pictorial instructions, but instead, can convey other meanings. The final argument is that the pictorial images have the semantic characteristics of a notational system. I argue that they are related to one specific system—the musical scores which interleave the images and intermingle with them in the pictorial frame.
Ländliche Lebensverhältnisse im Wandel 1952, 1972, 1993, 2012 Volume 6 Ländliche Arbeitsmärkte: Chancen für Frauen – Frauen als Chance
Creators: name: Tuitjer, Gesine
name: Tuitjer, Gesine
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Ländliche Räume
subject: Frauenerwerbsbeteiligung
subject: Geschlechterverhältnis
subject: Kultur

description: Kurzfassung/Abstract Eine Betrachtung der Erwerbsintegration von Frauen in ländlichen Räumen allein unter dem Aspekt des Fachkräftemangels greift zu kurz. Daher werden in dieser Arbeit lokale Geschlechterkulturen und ihre Wirkung auf die Situation von Müttern zwischen Familie und Beruf untersucht. Auf Grundlage einer standardisierten Bevölkerungsbefragung (n=3.177) wird die Einbindung von Frauen in Erwerbs- und Fürsorgearbeit für 14 Orte in Deutschland erfasst und diese Muster zu drei verschiedenen Geschlechterarrangements zusammengefasst. In zwei Orten lässt sich das sogenannte männliche Ernährerarrangement finden, in dem die Position der befragten Frauen deutlich durch Fürsorgearbeit gekennzeichnet ist. In den übrigen Orten entsprechen die Arrangements eher dem Dazuverdienerarrangement (Westdeutschland) oder dem Zweiverdiener-Arrangement (Ostdeutschland). Darauf aufbauend wird auf Grundlage qualitativer Interviews mit lokalen Experten des Arbeitsmarktes und der Verwaltungen, mit Arbeitgebern sowie Frauen und Müttern die lokale Geschlechterkultur in vier der 14 Orte rekonstruiert. Entlang vier thematischer Leitbilder über Familie und Geschlecht lassen sich unterschiedliche Orientierungen bezüglich der Verortung von Frauen zwischen Erwerbs- und Fürsorgearbeit identifizieren. Es zeigt sich, dass diese Leitbilder die Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf unterstützen oder auch negativ beeinträchtigen können. Zusätzlich kann aus dem Interviewmaterial abgeleitet werden, wie Leitbilder im Sinne von handlungsleitenden Orientierungen die Praxis der Menschen beeinflussen und die Ausgestaltung von Strukturen wie Kinderbetreuung, Teilzeitarbeitsplätzen oder Umschulungsmaßnahmen beeinflussen.
title: Mirroring Ghanaian society through slice-of-life radio advertisements
Creators: name: Hmensa, Patience Afrakoma
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: This thesis explores radio advertising in Ghana, focusing on the characteristics of a genre that is often termed 'slice-of-life' and that is popular with advertising producers. Slice-of-life adverts seek to represent a version of real life: specifically, the social reality of the target audience for the advert. I discuss how this represents a challenge to producers given a number of constraints, particularly the very brief duration of the mini-dramas that form the core of slice-of-life adverts and that last for just 1 0-60 seconds. I adopt the notion of 'designed indexicality' as a major analytical concept, arguing that this is a key strategy in designing a persuasive text. Producers, according to this view, deliberately harness culturally-salient indexical resources in the design of adverts, conveying meanings pertaining to the everyday lives of the advertised product's target audience, and that are readily and quickly interpretable by the audience. In analysing slice-of-life radio advertising I draw on an adapted, expanded form of a 'multiperspectived' discourse analysis. This combines an analysis of advertising texts with an analysis of advertising producers' accounts of their practice, observations of the production process and discussion with focus groups who represent the target audience for the adverts, meeting in a context that reflects habitual listening practices. The study therefore goes beyond the 'textualist' approaches that, until recently, have dominated applied linguistic research on advertising. I argue that the study addresses certain gaps in the literature, particularly with respect to the research context (an African country), the research focus (slice-of-life radio advertising) and the expanded multi-perspectived discourse analytical approach. I discuss a number of implications of the study for research on advertising discourse within applied linguistics and related fields, and also argue that the study points to the need for greater dialogue between applied linguists as analysts and advertising practitioners.
Spatial infinity in higher dimensional spacetimes
Creators: name: Shiromizu, Tetsuya
name: Tomizawa, Shinya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent studies on the uniqueness or non-uniqueness of higher dimensional black hole spacetime, we investigate the asymptotic structure of spatial infinity in n-dimensional spacetimes($n \geq 4$). It turns out that the geometry of spatial infinity does not have maximal symmetry due to the non-trivial Weyl tensor {}^{(n-1)}C_{abcd} in general. We also address static spacetime and its multipole moments P_{a_1 a_2 ... a_s}. Contrasting with four dimensions, we stress that the local structure of spacetimes cannot be unique under fixed a multipole moments in static vacuum spacetimes. For example, we will consider the generalized Schwarzschild spacetimes which are deformed black hole spacetimes with the same multipole moments as spherical Schwarzschild black holes. To specify the local structure of static vacuum solution we need some additional information, at least, the Weyl tensor {}^{(n-2)}C_{abcd} at spatial infinity.
description: 6 pages, accepted for publication in Physical Review D, published version
Additional file 1 of Association between diet quality and risk of stunting among school-aged children in Schistosoma mansoni endemic area of western Kenya: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Kishino, Madoka
name: Hida, Azumi
name: Chadeka, Evans A.
name: Inoue, Manabu
name: Osada-Oka, Mayuko
name: Matsumoto, Sohkichi
name: Njenga, Sammy M.
name: Hamano, Shinjiro
name: Nagi, Sachiyo
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Definition of 1SV and the FP score criteria for each food group. Table S2. Trend association of FP score tertiles with energy and food intakes of boys, school children in Mbita Sub-County, Western Kenya. Table S3. Trend association of FP score tertiles with energy and food intakes of girls, school children in Mbita Sub-County, Western Kenya. Table S4. Dietary intake according to household wealth status, school children in Mbita Sub-County, Western Kenya. Table S5. Odds ratios of stunting according to tertiles of the FP score by sex, school children in Mbita Sub-County, Western Kenya.
Data and code for Brandl et al. (2025) A seascape dichotomy in the role of small consumers for coral reef energy fluxes. Ecology.
Creators: name: Brandl, Simon
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 310302
subject: Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
classificationCode: 310305
subject: Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)

description: .zip folder contains the R-project, scripts, data, and plots needed to recreate the results. Scripts are divided in three distinct scripts, which perform different parts of the analyses.
Determining possible avenues of approach using ANTS
Creators: name: Svenson, Pontus
name: Sidenbladh, Hedvig
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Threat assessment is an important part of level 3 data fusion. Here we study a subproblem of this, worst-case risk assessment. Inspired by agent-based models used for simulation of trail formation for urban planning, we use ant colony optimization (ANTS) to determine possible avenues of approach for the enemy, given a situation picture. One way of determining such avenues would be to calculate the ``potential field'' caused by placing sources at possible goals for the enemy. This requires postulating a functional form for the potential, and also takes long time. Here we instead seek a method for quickly obtaining an effective potential. ANTS, which has previously been used to obtain approximate solutions to various optimization problems, is well suited for this. The output of our method describes possible avenues of approach for the enemy, i.e, areas where we should be prepared for attack. (The algorithm can also be run ``reversed'' to instead get areas of opportunity for our forces to exploit.) Using real geographical data, we found that our method gives a fast and reliable way of determining such avenues. Our method can be used in a computer-based command and control system to replace the first step of human intelligence analysis.
description: 8 pages, 12 figures. Accepted for 6th Int. Conf. Information Fusion, Cairns 2003
title: Financing ARV Drug Manufacture in Zimbabwe: Implications for technological capability upgrading and innovation for African local pharmaceutical production
Creators: name: Banda, Geoffrey
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2013

description: Contemporary academic and professional discourses on local African pharmaceutical manufacture have concentrated on technology, technology transfer, economies of scale, human capital, and markets for drugs; neglecting the financing of working capital and capital investment and the role played by banks. When finance is discussed, it is not discussed in depth and it is divorced from innovation and complexities surrounding financing of local African pharmaceutical manufacture. In this study, I investigated the financing of antiretroviral drugs (ARY) manufacture in Zimbabwe focusing on sources of finance for working capital requirements and capital investment to import technology. I also investigated technological capabilities surrounding access to finance and loan origination at pharmaceutical companies and banks respectively. Using a case study approach and multiple methods for data collection, I interviewed over 50 respondents from three Zimbabwean pharmaceutical companies, nine commercial banks, and one regional financial institution in addition to local and regional pharmaceutical manufacturers and policy makers in 2011 . I used examination, tabulation, categorisation and testing of data using both quantitative and qualitative evidence for data analysis. In line with literature on Zimbabwean enterprise finance, banks provided working capital finance but not capital investment finance. Bank short-term finance in conformity with African finance literature was characterised by high interest rates, high interest spreads, and low lending. The politics of lending offered an additional explanation to adverse selection and moral hazard explanations for the low lending, high interest rates, and high interest spreads in Zimbabwe. Pharmaceutical companies financed capital investment and a portion of working capital with internal funds, compromising rapid technological capability upgrading and innovation. Dependence on internal resources to fund capital investment and technology imports was driven by lack of investment and project finance capability to access offshore loans; as local banks could not advance foreign currency long-term loans. The theoretical implications of this study paint to the need to unravel an African context of the finance and innovation nexus surrounding technological capability upgrading and innovation in local African pharmaceutical manufacture.
End-to-end Whispered Speech Recognition with Frequency-weighted Approaches and Pseudo Whisper Pre-training
Creators: name: Chang, Heng-Jui
name: Liu, Alexander H.
name: Lee, Hung-yi
name: Lee, Lin-shan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Whispering is an important mode of human speech, but no end-to-end recognition results for it were reported yet, probably due to the scarcity of available whispered speech data. In this paper, we present several approaches for end-to-end (E2E) recognition of whispered speech considering the special characteristics of whispered speech and the scarcity of data. This includes a frequency-weighted SpecAugment policy and a frequency-divided CNN feature extractor for better capturing the high-frequency structures of whispered speech, and a layer-wise transfer learning approach to pre-train a model with normal or normal-to-whispered converted speech then fine-tune it with whispered speech to bridge the gap between whispered and normal speech. We achieve an overall relative reduction of 19.8% in PER and 44.4% in CER on a relatively small whispered TIMIT corpus. The results indicate as long as we have a good E2E model pre-trained on normal or pseudo-whispered speech, a relatively small set of whispered speech may suffice to obtain a reasonably good E2E whispered speech recognizer.
description: Accepted to IEEE SLT 2021
The Black biker : a lesbian novel
Creators: name: Arobateau, Red Jordan
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Lesbians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/996540
subject: Motorcycle clubs
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1028018
subject: Transgender people's writings, American
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743061
subject: Lesbians, Black
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1896639
subject: Transgender people's writings
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1743060
subject: LGBTQ+ motorcycle clubs
subject: Lesbians
subject: Transgender authors
subject: Black lesbians
subject: Lesbian bars
subject: Lesbian fiction

description: Book #3 in the series: "The Outlaw Chronicles - The Lesbian Biker Series" (Book #1: Satan's Best; Book #2: Leader of the Pack.) Description from the back cover: "The Mysterious Biker had come back & nobody knew her name. Voice deep, solemn and slow. Big, about Ebony’s size, but with less fat; and butch, but more of a feminine butch; dressed in total black leather with a motorcycle cap on her curly head. She looked down into the valley of her heart, it was a wasteland blackened. No red flesh of any heart left. No emotion but a twisted kind of pain like needles. Somebody said something, and she raised a dark clenched fist -- of power."
Spin interference in silicon one-dimensional rings
Creators: name: Bagraev, N. T.
name: Galkin, N. G.
name: Gehlhoff, W.
name: Klyachkin, L. E.
name: Malyarenko, A. M.
name: Shelykh, I. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first findings of the spin transistor effect caused by the Rashba gate-controlled ring embedded in the p-type self-assembled silicon quantum well that is prepared on the Si (100) surface. The coherence and phase sensitivity of the spin-dependent transport of holes are studied by varying the value of the external magnetic field and the gate voltage that are perpendicular to the plane of the double-slit ring. Firstly, the quantum scatterers connected to two one-dimensional leads and the quantum point contact inserted in the one of the arms of the double-slit ring are shown to define the amplitude and the phase of the Aharonov-Bohm and the Aharonov-Casher conductance oscillations. Secondly, the amplitude and phase sensitivity of the 0.7 feature of the hole quantum conductance staircase revealed by the quantum point contact inserted are found to result from the interplay of the spontaneous spin polarization and the Rashba spin-orbit interaction.
description: 2 pages, 2 figures, presented at the 5th International Conference on Strongly Correlated Electron Systems, SCES'05, Vienna, Austria, 26-30 July, 2005
No place else : attachment to land and region in Canadian realistic fiction for young adults
Creators: name: Harrison, Sandi Joy
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Landscape is a fact of Canadian life. Regardless of where one lives in Canada, the presence and images of countless trees, mountains, farms, snow drifts, or wildlife is never far from thought. In human geography, which studies the relationship between people and their surroundings, landscape is considered a cultural construct. How landscape is used and how it is perceived is culturally representative of the culture in which it exists. In much Canadian literature, the vast Canadian landscape defines Canada as a nation. Canadian realistic fiction for young adults often uses the Canadian landscape as a backdrop to plot. The young adult protagonists living in remote regions of the country who interact with the wilderness often develop specific attachments to it as a result of their isolation from the city and their experience with the landscape. When these protagonists escape into, or out of, nature, their attachments may change with their shifting perceptions of space and place. How these attachments form, how they change, and how they are regionally and nationally connected are the concerns of this thesis.
Additional file 1 of Strategies to prevent medical errors by nursing interns: a qualitative content analysis
Creators: name: Heydarikhayat, Nastaran
name: Ghanbarzehi, Nezar
name: Sabagh, Kimiya
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1
Το νόημα της Ελληνικής Επανάστασης στα σχολικά εγχειρίδια Ιστορίας του Λυκείου. Μια «συμβολική» μάχη σε έναν ιδεολογικό πόλεμο
Creators: name: Αρβανιτίδου, Βιργινία
name: Μητσιάλη, Αλεξάνδρα
Publisher: name: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση
Year: 2021

description: The following article's purpose is to manifest the ideology in the historical narrative of the 1821 Greek Revolution in the latest schoolbook editions of Greek Contemporary and Modern History which are taught in the Greek Lyceum.Having selected as axes of analysis a) the character of the Greek Revolution, b) the National Assembly of Epidaurus, c) the civil conflicts, d) the outcome of Revolution, we therefore tend to regard comparatively the two historical narratives, highlighting both the explicit and the latent aspects of ideology and the political viewpoint they are carrying and thus presented and evaluated in the historical events in each one of the books.
description: Κριτική Εκπαίδευση, No 1 (2021): ΚΡΙΤΙΚΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ
Tairiku Nippo The Continental Daily News
大陸日報
Creators: name: (:Null)
Publisher: name: Vancouver, BC : Tairiku Nippŏsha
Year: 2015

description: 巨船進水, kyosen shinsui;首相暗殺企画（首相暗殺企畫）, shushō ansatsu kikaku;巨船難破の責任者, kyosen nanpa no seki'ninsha
An Effective MVDR Post-Processing Method for Low-Latency Convolutive Blind Source Separation
Creators: name: Chua, J
name: Yan, Longfei
name: Kleijn, W Bastiaan
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 4603
subject: Computer vision and multimedia computation
classificationCode: 46
subject: Information and computing sciences

description: In this paper, we introduce a post-processing method to minimize the algorithmic latency in traditional blind source separation (BSS) techniques. Our proposed approach involves the incorporation of a minimum variance distortion response method with the spatial covariance matrix, which is derived from conventional BSS methods, to effectively compute short demixing filters. The performance of source separation can be improved either by increasing the number of microphones or by integrating a dereverberation technique as a pre-processing step, or even both. The experimental results confirm the effectiveness and consistency of the proposed approaches on diverse speech databases.