cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Agricultural risk management decision modeling for the US Pacific Northwest
Creators: name: Chen, Xiaomei
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2006
Subjects: Agriculture -- Risk management -- Northwest, Pacific

description: The dissertation includes both empirical and theoretical studies in risk management for Pacific Northwest (PNW) farmers. Chapter one gives a brief introduction of the structure and contents of the following three studies. Chapter two uses a mean-variance model to assess the risk management impact of cross hedging with alternative futures contracts (Chicago - CBOT, Kansas City - KCBT, or Minneapolis - MGE) for PNW soft white wheat hedgers. Since existing measures of liquidity costs are limited, a breakeven approach is developed to assess the risk management effect of the alternative futures markets. Results suggest KCBT is the best choice for risk protection in most cases. The MGE ranks the lowest and the CBOT is in the middle. The goal of the chapter three is to develop a general mean-variance-skewness (MVS) model and compare it and the traditional mean-variance (MV) model against the expected utility (EU) model in the setting of an individual producer hedging in the futures market. Optimal solutions of optimal hedge ratios and comparative statics are derived. The optimal hedge ratios from MV and MVS models are numerically compared with that of EU model under alternative preference parameters. Results show that: 1) the derived linear MVS model maintains the analytical convenience of MV model, 2) it can generate different results as MV, 3) it approximate EU better than MV, and 4) it is more flexible than MV. Chapter four is to assess income risks of PNW apple growers and the effect of the apple crop insurance program. We have examined the income risks of conventional and organic production; and evaluate the roles of Grower Yield Certification (GYC) and a hypothesized Income Protection insurance for Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Gala and Fuji. Results show organic apple growers earn higher expected revenue, incur higher production cost, make higher expected profit, but face higher income risks than conventional growers. Based on government investment in premium subsidies, revenue insurance is more cost effective. Organic apple production risks are higher than their conventional counterparts, causing the current GYC premium to be below the expected indemnity (except Gala).
Additional file 3 of Willingness to pay for health care services in common cold, retinal detachment, and myocardiac infarction: an internet survey in Japan
Creators: name: Yasunaga, Hideo
name: Ide, Hiroo
name: Imamura, Tomoaki
name: Ohe, Kazuhiko
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Authors’ original file for figure 3
Interpreting Capability Maturity Mode Integration (CMMI) for COTS-Based Systems
Creators: name: Tyson, Barbara
name: Albert, Cecilia
name: Brownsword, Lisa
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Experience shows that engineering commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based systems requires fundamental changes from traditional engineering: adjusted roles and responsibilities, new skills, and different processes. Practitioners are often surprised to find that building and supporting COTS-based systems demands more, not less, discipline in their management and engineering practices. Many organizations have derived benefit from process improvement using capability maturity models and want to apply them as they build COTS-based systems. In addition, organizations building COTS-based systems want to apply the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMM). This leads to the question, "How should CMMI be interpreted for organizations building, fielding, and supporting a COTS-based system?" This report shows that developing and maintaining COTS-based systems is more than selecting products and managing vendor relationships and is, therefore, more than just applying the Supplier Sourcing discipline within CMMI. The four CMMI disciplines—Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Integrated Product and Process Development, and Supplier Sourcing—require interpretation and must be used together to promote improvement of an organization's processes for developing and maintaining COTS-based systems. This report summarizes what makes COTS-based systems unique and provides high-level guidance for interpreting and using CMMI practices to facilitate appropriate processes for COTS-based systems.
Measurement of the liquid argon energy response to nuclear and electronic recoils
Creators: name: Agnes, P.
name: Dawson, J.
name: De Cecco, S.
name: Fan, A.
name: Fiorillo, G.
name: Franco, D.
name: Galbiati, C.
name: Giganti, C.
name: Johnson, T. N.
name: Korga, G.
name: Kryn, D.
name: Lebois, M.
name: Mandarano, A.
name: Martoff, C. J.
name: Navrer-Agasson, A.
name: Pantic, E.
name: Qi, L.
name: Razeto, A.
name: Renshaw, A. L.
name: Riffard, Q.
name: Rossi, B.
name: Savarese, C.
name: Schlitzer, B.
name: Suvorov, Y.
name: Tonazzo, A.
name: Wang, H.
name: Wang, Y.
name: Watson, A. W.
name: Wilson, J. N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A liquid argon time projection chamber, constructed for the Argon Response to Ionization and Scintillation (ARIS) experiment, has been exposed to the highly collimated and quasi-monoenergetic LICORNE neutron beam at the Institute de Physique Nuclaire Orsay in order to study the scintillation response to nuclear and electronic recoils. An array of liquid scintillator detectors, arranged around the apparatus, tag scattered neutrons and select nuclear recoil energies in the [7, 120] keV energy range. The relative scintillation efficiency of nuclear recoils was measured to high precision at null field, and the ion-electron recombination probability was extracted for a range of applied electric fields. Single Compton scattered electrons, produced by gammas emitted from the de-excitation of $^7$Li* in coincidence with the beam pulse, along with calibration gamma sources, are used to extract the recombination probability as a function of energy and electron drift field. The ARIS results have been compared with three recombination probability parameterizations (Thomas-Imel, Doke-Birks, and PARIS), allowing for the definition of a fully comprehensive model of the liquid argon response to nuclear and electronic recoils down to a few keV range. The constraints provided by ARIS to the liquid argon response at low energy allow the reduction of systematics affecting the sensitivity of dark matter search experiments based on liquid argon
description: 15 pages, 20 figures
Interoperable Acquisition for Systems of Systems: The Challenges
Creators: name: Smith, James
name: D. Michael Phillips
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Large, complex systems development has always been challenging, even when the "only" things a program manager had to worry about were cost, schedule, and performance within a single program. The emergence of operational concepts such as network-centric operations, greatly expanded use of joint and combined operations, and rampant growth in system complexity has led to the prevalence of interoperable systems of systems as the preferred solution to providing operational capability. This report explores how systems-of-systems realities necessitate changes in the processes used to acquire, develop, field, and sustain operational capability. Interoperable acquisition is defined, and key concepts are explored through an analysis of some of the ways in which traditional (i.e., system-centric) acquisition approaches can result in problems when applied to a system-of-systems context.
Sustained Leadership Practices and Behaviours Following Postgraduate Leadership Education: A Qualitative Study
Creators: name: Middleton, Rebekkah
name: Murray, S
name: Peters, S
name: Montgomery, Amy
name: Halcomb, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of Wollongong
Year: 2025
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4203
subject: Health services and systems
classificationCode: 4204
subject: Midwifery
classificationCode: 4205
subject: Nursing

description: Aim: To explore how postgraduate leadership education is translated into practice and how leadership practices and behaviours are sustained following completion of a leadership program. Design: A qualitative exploratory study using an appreciative inquiry approach. Methods: A single Health District, partnered with a regional university, offering a 12-month leadership program, the Effective Leadership in Health Program. Four semi-structured group interviews were undertaken with 11 registered nurses (RNs) and allied health professionals. Data were audio-recorded and transcribed before being analysed using thematic analysis. Results: Four themes were revealed relating to how the learning was translated and sustained in clinical practice, namely, within (1) self, (2) others, (3) relationships and (4) sustained leadership. All participants agreed that their participation in the leadership program impacted on their subsequent approach to leadership in multiple contexts, relationships and interactions.
Additional file 1 of Fatty acid status and behavioural symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in adolescents: A case-control study
Creators: name: Colter, Ashley L
name: Cutler, Caroline
name: Meckling, Kelly Anne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 1
title: How mixed-mode surveys are transforming social research
title: the influence of survey mode on measurement in web and telephone surveys
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Christian, Leah Melani
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Social surveys -- Data processing

description: This dissertation is comprised of an introductory chapter that explores the proliferation of mixed-mode surveys, where data is collected using multiple modes, and their influence on social research. Following the introductory chapter, three chapters of journal article length form the main body of the dissertation and address measurement issues facing mixed-mode surveys. Finally, a concluding chapter summarizes the main findings and considers future directions for mixed-mode surveys. The data presented are from methodological experiments embedded in two mixed-mode web and telephone surveys of random samples of Washington State University undergraduate students.; Chapters Two and Three examine how the mode of data collection and the format of response scales influence responses in web and telephone surveys. Respondents surveyed by telephone consistently provide significantly more positive responses than those surveyed by web across a variety of different questions and response scales. In addition, more respondents select the most positive category when all of the categories are labeled and when the scale is presented in two-steps (respondents first choose the direction and then the intensity of their response) rather than in one-step. These effects are compounded where telephone respondents to the twostep format provide the most extreme responses.; Chapter Four describes the forms of communication available in each mode and addresses how differences in visual and aural communication influence the response process. This chapter presents a multi-stage model that explains how respondents perceive and process visual information and synthesizes research on the visual design of surveys from the past decade to provide a practical framework for surveyors to apply when designing questionnaires. Examples are used to illustrate how visual design can help guide respondents in completing selfadministered surveys. Since social research is often based on data from various types of surveys, threats to survey data quality need to be examined and understood by all social researchers. Features of different survey modes influence responses sometimes threatening the quality of our measurements and therefore the conclusions we draw based on them. Further research is needed to understand the biases that may arise as new technologies and mixed-mode surveys continue to profoundly shape survey research practices.
Gendered Mediation of Clinton's Nonverbal Immediacy.
Creators: name: Cummings, Laura
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2018

description: Hillary Clinton’s defeat in the 2016 U.S. presidential election was a stunning upset that confounded pollsters, pundits, and journalists predicting a solid win by the former secretary of state and Democratic candidate against businessperson and reality television star Donald Trump. This Major Research Paper uses the theoretical lenses of gendered mediation and the double bind to investigate how U.S. media framed Clinton’s credibility and likability as a female candidate during the last six weeks of the election campaign. Employing a qualitative thematic content analysis, the paper examines how two regional daily newspapers in traditionally red and blue states assessed Clinton’s credibility and likability through her use of nonverbal immediacy cues. It finds that though Clinton was able to gain credibility through her use of immediacy behaviours, the portrayal of her likability was still confined by gender norms and depicted as a barrier to her viability as a presidential candidate.
Bayesian analysis of the break in DAMPE lepton spectra
Creators: name: Niu, Jia-Shu
name: Li, Tianjun
name: Ding, Ran
name: Zhu, Bing
name: Xue, Hui-Fang
name: Wang, Yang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recently, DAMPE has released its first results on the high-energy cosmic-ray electrons and positrons (CREs) from about $25$ GeV to $4.6$ TeV, which directly detect a break at $\sim 1$ TeV. This result gives us an excellent opportunity to study the source of the CREs excess. In this work, we used the data fo proton and helium flux (from AMS-02 and CREAM), $\bar{\mathrm{p}}/\mathrm{p}$ ratio (from AMS-02), positron flux (from AMS-02) and CREs flux (from DAMPE without the peak signal point at $\sim 1.4$ TeV) to do global fitting simultaneously, which can account the influence from the propagation model, the nuclei and electron primary source injection and the secondary lepton production precisely. For extra source to interpret the excess in lepton spectrum, we consider two separate scenarios (pulsar and dark matter annihilation via leptonic channels) to construct the bump ($\gtrsim 100$ GeV) and the break at $\sim 1$ TeV. The result shows: (i) in pulsar scenario, the spectral index of the injection should be $ν_{\mathrm{psr}} \sim 0.65$ and the cut-off should be $R_{c} \sim 650$ GV; (ii) in dark matter scenario, the dark matter particle's mass is $m_χ \sim 1208$ GeV and the cross section is $\langle σv \rangle \sim 1.48 \times 10^{-23} \mathrm{cm}^{3} \mathrm{s}^{-1}$. Moreover, in the dark matter scenario, the $τ\barτ$ annihilation channel is highly suppressed, and a DM model is built to satisfy the fitting results.
description: 17 pages, 12 figures. PRD version
The M33 Metallicity Project: Resolving the Abundance Gradient Discrepancies in M33
Creators: name: Rosolowsky, Erik
name: Simon, Joshua D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a new determination of the metallicity gradient in M33, based on Keck/LRIS measurements of oxygen abundances using the temperature-sensitive emission line [OIII] 4363 A in 61 HII regions. These data approximately triple the sample of direct oxygen abundances in M33. We find a central abundance of 12 + log(O/H) = 8.36+/-0.04 and a slope of -0.027+/-0.012 dex/kpc, in agreement with infrared measurements of the neon abundance gradient but much shallower than most previous oxygen gradient measurements. There is substantial intrinsic scatter of 0.11 dex in the metallicity at any given radius in M33, which imposes a fundamental limit on the accuracy of gradient measurements that rely on small samples of objects. We also show that the ionization state of neon does not follow the ionization state of oxygen as is commonly assumed, suggesting that neon abundance measurements from optical emission lines require careful treatment of the ionization corrections.
description: 10 pages, Accepted to ApJ
Transmission of Human Papillomavirus Without Sexual Contact
Creators: name: Tavassol, Panteha
name: Ahmed, Naweed
name: Kayani, Wakqas
name: Jamshidi, Sahab
name: Bapat, Suneil
name: Imamovic, Ahmed
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: HPV
nonsexual
male
Gardasil®

description: Human papillomavirus (HPV) is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections. There are four common HPV strains: 6, 11, 16, and 18. Strains 6 and 11 cause genital warts, while strains 16 and 18 are asymptomatic in males and may progress to cervical cancer in females. Although uncommon, a small percentage of males and females have been diagnosed with HPV without previous sexual contact. In this case report, we discuss a case conducted on a 15-year-old South Asian male who contracted an unknown low-risk strain of HPV with no history of sexual contact. HPV is highly infectious, however in the majority of cases the immune system is able to clear the infection, preventing the appearance of genital warts. In cases such as these, it is important to help control the spread of viral infections. Several determinants of health are involved in and affect the transmission of HPV, including income and social status, social support networks, education and literacy, culture, social and physical environments, and health services. To aid in the prevention of HPV, sexual education should be taught at early ages within schools and the Gardasil® vaccine should be administered to both females and males at an early age to reduce the burden of disease and the incidence of HPV.
Additional file 2 of Fatty acid status and behavioural symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in adolescents: A case-control study
Creators: name: Colter, Ashley L
name: Cutler, Caroline
name: Meckling, Kelly Anne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 2
Justicia constitucional a debate. Vol. I, Crónicas jurisprudenciales del 2021
Creators: name: Julio Estrada, Alexei
name: González Medina, Diego Andrés
name: Solano González, Édgar
name: Padrón Pardo, Floralba
name: Ramirez Cleves, Gonzalo Andres
name: Sierra Porto, Humberto Antonio
name: Magaldi Serna, Jalil Alejandro
name: Roa Roa, Jorge Ernesto
name: Upegui Mejia, Juan Carlos
name: Correa Henao, Magdalena Inés
name: Osorio Alvis, María Alejandra
name: Mino Buitrón, María Dolores
name: Medina Barragán, Mariana
name: Paz Glen, Michelle M.
name: Robledo Silva, Paula
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Colombia. Corte Constitucional - Jurisprudencia - 2021
subject: Garantías constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Acuerdo de paz - Aspectos constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Derechos civiles - Aspectos constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Libertad de expresión - Aspectos constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Eutanasia - Aspectos constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Derecho a la privacidad - Aspectos constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Derechos personales - Aspectos constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Derechos políticos - Aspectos constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Violencia de género - Aspectos económicos - Aspectos constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Protección de los derechos fundamentales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Reformas constitucionales - Colombia - 2021
subject: Colombia - Derecho constitucional - 2021 - Jurisprudencia
subject: Colombia - Historia constitucional - 2021 - Jurisprudencia
subject: Colombia - Política y gobierno - 2021

description: Es un gusto presentar el primer volumen de Justicia constitucional a debate. Una iniciativa que nace en el marco del grupo de Justicia Constitucional del Departamento de Derecho Constitucional de la Universidad Externado de Colombia, con el objetivo de divulgar, discutir y analizar algunas de las sentencias más importantes que profiere la Corte Constitucional año a año. Un proyecto que, además, hemos pensado a manera de homenaje a este alto tribunal que, durante ya treinta años se ha dedicado tenazmente no solo a la defensa de nuestra Constitución, sino en particular, a la garantía de los derechos fundamentales de todas las personas, especialmente, las más vulnerables. La importancia de conocer, estudiar y divulgar las sentencias de la Corte tiene al menos dos justificaciones, especialmente relevantes dentro del contexto nacional. En primer lugar, está la que tiene que ver con el elevado valor que posee esta jurisprudencia. Lo cierto es que el trabajo de quienes administran justicia, en particular de quienes integran los tribunales de cierre, resulta determinante para garantizar la coherencia, la unidad y la cohesión de los ordenamientos jurídicos. Después de todo, no podemos olvidar que la jurisprudencia cumple en abstracto múltiples funciones, en especial cuando se trata de la constitucional.
Interoperability in the e-Government Context
Creators: name: Novakouski, Marc
name: Lewis, Grace A.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Achieving interoperability in an e-government context is difficult. Although the benefits of enabling e-government systems to interoperate are significant, repeated failures to build working systems provide evidence that the tasks necessary to gain those benefits are poorly understood. Many governments have addressed interoperability as primarily a technical issue. However, to address the entirety of the interoperability challenge, development teams must also consider nontechnical factors that influence their efforts to meet interoperability goals. This report describes a proposed model through which to understand interoperability in the e-government context. With this model, system developers should characterize interoperability in six dimensions: Developers need to analyze e-government interoperability requirements at the technical, semantic, and organizational levels, but they should also consider the legal, political, and sociocultural issues with which the e-government system must also interoperate. This report explains some of the challenges associated with achieving interoperability in e-government systems and presents some guidance on how to address interoperability requirements, with the goal of making both policy makers and system developers aware of the depth and breadth of these challenges.
Traduire à voix haute: la traduction dictée interactive comme solution ergonomique
Creators: name: Zapata, Julián
name: Saint, Elizabeth C.
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2017
Subjects: ergonomics
interactive translation dictation
voice recognition
multimodal interaction
translation technology
reconnaissance vocale

description: English: Voice recognition (VR) technology has greatly evolved since computer tools first came into our lives. It has been increasingly adopted by translators, who turn to the technology to minimise or prevent certain physical or mental health problems, among other reasons. VR has also helped bring translation dictation back into the profession. As shown in the first study presented in this article, the ergonomic advantages of using VR are genuinely valued by translators. However, we argue that VR could be improved by combining it with the various input modes offered by newer multimodal and mobile interfaces, which offer many advantages. We therefore advocate moving beyond translation dictation to develop an interactive translation dictation (ITD) environment, through which the professional translator's workstation would become a natural extension of his or her capabilities. Our second study presents the results of an experiment designed to assess the ergonomic gains of using a prototypical ITD environment. Français: Les technologies de reconnaissance vocale (RV) se sont largement développées depuis l’arrivée des outils informatiques dans notre vie. De plus en plus employée par les traducteurs pour, entre autres, réduire ou prévenir certains problèmes de santé physiques ou psychologiques, la RV a aussi contribué au retour de la traduction dictée chez ces professionnels. Comme la première étude présentée dans cet article le montre, les avantages ergonomiques de l’utilisation de la RV sont véritablement appréciés par les traducteurs. Nous avançons toutefois que la RV gagnerait à être combinée aux multiples atouts que présentent les interfaces multimodales des outils technologiques émergents et mobiles. Plus que de traduction dictée, il s’agirait alors d’offrir un espace de traduction dictée interactive (TDI), par lequel la plateforme de travail du traducteur professionnel deviendrait un prolongement de ses compétences. Notre seconde étude présente les résultats d’une expérience d’utilisation d’un prototype d’environnement de TDI visant à en évaluer sa valeur ajoutée en matière d’ergonomie.
Methods for Rapidly Processing Angular Masks of Next-Generation Galaxy Surveys
Creators: name: Swanson, Molly E. C.
name: Tegmark, Max
name: Hamilton, Andrew J. S.
name: Hill, J. Colin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: As galaxy surveys become larger and more complex, keeping track of the completeness, magnitude limit, and other survey parameters as a function of direction on the sky becomes an increasingly challenging computational task. For example, typical angular masks of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey contain about N=300,000 distinct spherical polygons. Managing masks with such large numbers of polygons becomes intractably slow, particularly for tasks that run in time O(N^2) with a naive algorithm, such as finding which polygons overlap each other. Here we present a "divide-and-conquer" solution to this challenge: we first split the angular mask into predefined regions called "pixels," such that each polygon is in only one pixel, and then perform further computations, such as checking for overlap, on the polygons within each pixel separately. This reduces O(N^2) tasks to O(N), and also reduces the important task of determining in which polygon(s) a point on the sky lies from O(N) to O(1), resulting in significant computational speedup. Additionally, we present a method to efficiently convert any angular mask to and from the popular HEALPix format. This method can be generically applied to convert to and from any desired spherical pixelization. We have implemented these techniques in a new version of the mangle software package, which is freely available at http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/mangle/, along with complete documentation and example applications. These new methods should prove quite useful to the astronomical community, and since mangle is a generic tool for managing angular masks on a sphere, it has the potential to benefit terrestrial mapmaking applications as well.
description: New version 2.1 of the mangle software now available at http://space.mit.edu/home/tegmark/mangle/ - includes galaxy survey masks and galaxy lists for the latest SDSS data release and the 2dFGRS final data release as well as extensive documentation and examples. 14 pages, 9 figures, matches version accepted by MNRAS
Hadronic structure from double parton scattering
Creators: name: Rinaldi, Matteo
name: Ceccopieri, Federico Alberto
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present paper we consider the so-called effective cross section, a quantity which encodes the experimental knowledge on double parton scattering in hadronic collisions that has been accomulated so far. We show that the effective cross section, under some assumptions close to those adopted in its experimental extractions, can be used to obtain a range of mean transverse distance between an interacting parton pair in double parton scattering. Therefore we have proved that the effective cross section offers a way to access information on the hadronic structure.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure. References added and figure updated. Referee suggestions implemented. Published in PRD rapid communication
The organization of tip links and stereocilia on hair cells of bird and lizard basilar papillae
Creators: name: Pickles, J. O.
name: Brix, J.
name: Comis, S. D.
name: Gleich, Otto
name: Köppl, C.
name: Manley, G. A.
name: Osborne, M. P.
Publisher: name: Universität Regensburg
Year: 1989
Subjects: subject: stereocilia; hair cell; bird; lizard; papilla; link; tip link; transduction; development
subject: 590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Auditory papillae from three species of bird (pigeon, starling, and chick), and two species of European lizard (Podarcis murolis and Podarcis sic&) were examined by scanning electron microscopy. Hair bundles from all papillae showed tip links oriented along the direction of gradation in heights of the stereocilia (i.e. parallel to the hair-cell axis of bilateral symmetry, and so parallel to the excitato~-i~bito~ axis for m~hanotransduction). This orientation was seen irrespective of the overall orientation of the hair bundle within the papilla. The stereocilia formed columns, joined by the tip links, which ran parallel to the hair-cell axis of bilateral symmetry. The stereocilia within the same column tended to stay together, while those in different columns tended to separate during preparation, In many columns ail the stereocilia tended to be a little taller, or a little shorter, than the equivalent stereocilia in adjacent columns, suggesting that all the stereocilia within one column had been affected by a common height determinant during development. In addition, links running laterally between stereocilia were seen, in a band near the base of the stereocilia. The results are consistent with the hypothesis that tip links are a universal feature of mechano-transducing acousticolateral hair cells, and that they are involved in sensory transduction. The results also support suggestions that the tip links may play a role in determining the heights of the stereocilia during development.
Additional file 3 of Fatty acid status and behavioural symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in adolescents: A case-control study
Creators: name: Colter, Ashley L
name: Cutler, Caroline
name: Meckling, Kelly Anne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 3
International Liability Issues for Software Quality
Creators: name: Mead, Nancy R.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This report focuses on international law related to cybercrime, international information security standards, and software liability issues as they relate to information security for critical infrastructure applications. Each area is explored and implications for U.S. policy and efforts to create cybersecurity policy worldwide are discussed. Recommendations are made for U.S. government participation and leadership. This report is one of a series of reports on U.S. policy by the CERT Coordination Center. Prior reports focused on international infrastructure for global security incident response and the technical challenges and global policy issues of tracking and tracing cyber attacks.
El salario emocional, una estrategia que impacta la calidad de vida de los colaboradores de Lyown Holding S.A.S. en pro del ambiente laboral
Creators: name: Ruíz Oviedo, Mary Alexandra
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Ambiente de trabajo
subject: Cultura organizacional
subject: Aptitud de mando
subject: Salario emocional
subject: Calidad de vida
subject: Ambiente laboral
subject: Capital humano

description: La investigación, se ejecutó con el fin de diseñar una Estrategia de Salario Emocional, para la empresa Lyown Holding S.A.S. con el fin de impactar de manera positiva la calidad de vida y el ambiente laboral de los colaboradores, quienes ejercen su profesión y talento en el sector publicitario del país. En esta investigación se estudian tres (3) variables: salario emocional, calidad de vida y ambiente laboral, las cuales, a través de un soporte teórico, buscan mejorar los mecanismos y alternativas del equilibrio que se puede ofrecer al capital humano, frente a la relación entre su vida personal, familiar, laboral y profesional.
description: The investigation was carried out in order to design an Emotional Salary Strategy for the company Lyown Holding S.A.S. in order to positively impact the quality of life and the work environment of the collaborators, who exercise their profession and talent in the advertising sector of the country. In this research three (3) variables are studied: emotional salary, quality of life and work environment, which, through a theoretical support, seek to improve the mechanisms and alternatives of the balance that can be offered to the human capital, regarding the relationship between their personal, family, work and professional life.
Effects of Disk Warping on the Inclination Evolution of Star-Disk-Binary Systems
Creators: name: Zanazzi, J. J.
name: Lai, Dong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several recent studies have suggested that circumstellar disks in young stellar binaries may be driven into misalignement with their host stars due to secular gravitational interactions between the star, disk and the binary companion. The disk in such systems is twisted/warped due to the gravitational torques from the oblate central star and the external companion. We calculate the disk warp profile, taking into account of bending wave propagation and viscosity in the disk. We show that for typical protostellar disk parameters, the disk warp is small, thereby justifying the "flat-disk" approximation adopted in previous theoretical studies. However, the viscous dissipation associated with the small disk warp/twist tends to drive the disk toward alignment with the binary or the central star. We calculate the relevant timescales for the alignment. We find the alignment is effective for sufficiently cold disks with strong external torques, especially for systems with rapidly rotating stars, but is ineffective for the majority of star-disk-binary systems. Viscous warp driven alignment may be necessary to account for the observed spin-orbit alignment in multi-planet systems if these systems are accompanied by an inclined binary companion.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures, 4 tables, accepted by MNRAS
Visible Minorities and Majority Giving*
Creators: name: Amankwaa, Benic
name: Devlin, Rose Anne
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2016
Subjects: Philanthropy
International Giving
Majority Giving
Minorities and Philanthropy
1601E
Philanthropie
dons internationaux
dons des gens dans la majorité
minorités et philanthropie

description: We are the first to examine empirically if the presence of minority individuals affects the decision to give to charities by majority individuals. We focus on two giving decisions by the majority population. The first is giving to any charitable organization; the second is giving to organizations geared to international causes. Our findings suggest that the larger the proportion of minorities in a given community, the more likely that members of the majority group living in that community give to international causes. But, for the decision to give in general, the opposite holds true: the presence of minorities exerts a negative influence on this decision, consistent with Putnam’s, and others, finding that living in a heterogeneous community has a deleterious effect on charitable giving (Alesina & La Ferrara, 2000 & 2002). / Nous sommes les premiers à étudier empiriquement si la présence d’individus appartenant à une minorité visible affecte la décision des membres de la majorité de donner à des oeuvres caritatives. Nous nous concentrons sur deux types de dons : les dons faits à tous les organismes de bienfaisance et ceux faits aux organismes défendant une cause internationale. Nos résultats suggèrent que plus la proportion d’individus appartenant à une minorité visible dans une communauté est grande, plus les gens de la majorité vivant dans cette communauté sont enclins à donner aux oeuvres caritatives dédiées aux causes internationales. Toutefois, c’est le contraire pour la décision de faire un don en général. La présence d’individus appartenant à une minorité visible affecte négativement la décision de faire un don. Ce résultat est similaire à celui de Putnam et d’autres chercheurs qui ont trouvé que vivre dans une communauté hétérogène a un effet négatif sur les dons aux oeuvres caritatives (Alesina & La Ferrara, 2000 & 2002).
title: Prudent mothers?
title: paternal investment, female reproductive strategies and offspring development in the barn owl (Tyto alba)
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Seifert, Megan L.
Publisher: name: Washington State University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Barn owl -- Reproduction

description: Parental investment directly affects offspring survival. If this investment is not equal across offspring, unequal or differential survival will occur among progeny. In birds, mothers affect the success of the nest and of individual offspring by clutch/brood size, egg size, brood sex ratio (especially in size dimorphic species), maternally derived yolk hormones, and nestling size hierarchies (caused by laying interval and onset of incubation). In the barn owl (Tyto alba), males provide their partners with food throughout egg laying and halfway through the nestling phase. By measuring male food delivery, we were able to quantify food resources available to females during reproduction and relate food to reproductive investment. We measured clutch size, brood size, egg mass, yolk hormones, and sex ratio differences within and among broods to examine the differing ways in which females invest in their offspring. Brood sex ratios were not related to current food resources, but more resources allowed parents to produce more offspring and fledge more offspring successfully. Population sex ratios did not follow Fisher’s theory of equal allocation; parents fledged equal numbers of male and female offspring in spite of sexual size dimorphism and a significantly male biased hatching sex ratio. Barn owl mothers differentially allocated yolk hormones to eggs. The first 3-4 eggs (depending on clutch size) laid had increasing androgen levels with each successive egg and then androgen levels decreased in later laid eggs. Eggs laid later in the laying order were more likely to be male, partially supporting the sharing-out hypothesis. We found higher survival in early-hatched than in late-hatched nestlings. Male and female offspring had similar circulating plasma androgens and corticosterone concentrations. At an age when tarsus growth had reached its maximum, nestling testosterone levels were positively related to body condition. Circulating corticosterone levels increased with nestling age. Additionally, later-hatched nestlings had higher corticosterone levels; corticosterone was negatively related to body condition at two different points of the nestling phase. These results support the hypothesis that corticosterone plays a role in facilitating honest signaling of nestling need to parents. Thus parental decisions influence offspring fitness in a variety of ways.
The Determinants Of Underage Marriage In Nigeria
Creators: name: Oyomi, Eyesan
Publisher: name: My University
Year: 2020

description: This paper studies the structural/demographic determinants of early marriage in Nigeria. In order to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal of “eliminated child marriage by year 2030”, governments will require thorough scientific data on the prevalence of child marriage in their countries and its structural determinants, to inform meaningful investment in program and policy responses. This study uses the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2018 data to determine the determinants of early child marriage in Nigeria. Using the logistic estimation technique, we find that links between community-level variables and early marriage formation show that neighborhood effects are very important. The results further confirm that region and place of residence, educational attainment and number of siblings play an important role in the demand for child brides. In addition, the major ethnicities in the Northern region have a higher prevalence of child brides than other ethnicities in Nigeria.
Gauss-Bonnet dark energy on Hořava-Lifshitz cosmology
Creators: name: Lepe, Samuel
name: Otalora, Giovanni
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the Gauss-Bonnet dark energy model and its deformed version on Hořava-Lifshitz cosmology, which belongs to the class of cosmologies obtained from the so-called projectable version of Hořava-Lifshitz gravity. In particular, we investigate the bulk/boundary interaction in this scenario through the $Q$ function, which we interpret as a measure of the energy transference between the bulk and the spacetime boundary. Then we discuss whether the thermal equilibrium will be stable or not, once it is reached, and the validity of the generalized second law. We show that the $Q$ function can exhibit sign changes along the cosmic evolution and the Universe reaches the thermal equilibrium as a transient phenomenon.
description: 9 pages, 10 figures
Implicaciones en la reorganización del self e ideales de construcción de familia de los usuarios de los aplicativos para citas : ¿Las aplicaciones de citas como un mercado de cuerpos?
Creators: name: Torres García, Julie Katherine
Publisher: name: Universidad Externado de Colombia
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Redes sociales
subject: Conducta psicológica - Aspectos sociales
subject: Psicoterapia
subject: Redes sociales y/o aplicativos para citas
subject: Reorganización del self
subject: Familia
subject: Mercantilización
subject: Implicaciones

description: En las últimas dos décadas el ínternet ha presentado un incremento considerable en su uso, representando cambión importante en la forma en la interacción social, transitando esta de ser presencia! a ser medida por una pantalla, con esto se abre paso al concepto de mercantitización dentro de los aplicativos para citas en donde el self de los sujetos se ve expuesto en las fotografías de perfil de los usuarios, y estas fotografías se ven envueltas en un proceso de consumo entre los usuarios dado que la motivación central de estos es la satisfacción del deseo corporal. Se busco plasmar las experiencias de los usuarios de los aplicativos para citas referente a la mercantílización de la imagen física y las posibles reorganizaciones del self de los usuarios y así mismo de un proyecto de familia.
description: In the last two decades the internet has presented a considerable increase in its use, representing an important change in the form of social interaction, moving from being face-to-face to being measured by a screen, with this it opens the way to the concept of commodification within dating applications where the self of the subjects is exposed in the profile photographs of the users, and these photographs are involved in a process of consumption among the users given that their central motivation is the satisfaction of bodily desire . lt sought to capture the experiences of the users of dating applications regarding the commodification of the physical image and the possible reorganizations of the users' self and likewise of a family project.
Additional file 4 of Fatty acid status and behavioural symptoms of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder in adolescents: A case-control study
Creators: name: Colter, Ashley L
name: Cutler, Caroline
name: Meckling, Kelly Anne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Authors’ original file for figure 4
International Implementation of Best Practices for Mitigating Insider Threat: Analyses for India and Germany
Creators: name: Flynn, Lori
name: Huth, Carly
name: Buttles, Palma
name: Theis, Michael
name: Silowash, George J
name: Cassidy, Tracy
name: Wright, Travis
name: Trzeciak, Randy
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 80309 Software Engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This report analyzes insider threat mitigation in India and Germany, using the new framework for international cybersecurity analysis described in the paper titled "Best Practices Against Insider Threats in All Nations," applying the framework to specific countries for the first time. Using that framework, cybersecurity standards are considered with respect to analysis that takes into account a country's technologies, relevant laws, law enforcement, corruption, and prevalent culture and subcultures. This report provides a detailed profile for each of these factors for each country and considers five best practices for mitigating insider threats recommended in the Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats. This report is intended to help organizations implement cybersecurity best practices internationally. In part, this analysis is meant to help readers understand challenges in India and Germany, plus mitigations for the challenges that are particularly useful in those countries. These insights can be used by organizations that outsource to, offshore to, or have supply chains that include these countries. Furthermore, this report's findings may be helpful on a wide scale for implementing general cybersecurity best practices in countries that share similarities with India or Germany, with regard to the factors studied. Technical, physical, and administrative controls that are helpful for implementing best practices in India and Germany may be helpful for similar countries. Likewise, particular controls may be ineffective (and require substitution controls) in similar countries. This is an initial, exploratory effort that is not exhaustive.