cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of A survey on Canadian pediatric hospital clinical/medical teaching unit implementation during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Tsang, Kara K.
name: Latchman, Andrew
name: Singhal, Nishma
name: Federici, Giuliana
name: Russell, Sandra
name: Irwin, Denise
name: Stevens, Robyn
name: McArthur, Andrew G.
name: Khan, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 2.
Superstatistical fluctuations in time series: Applications to share-price dynamics and turbulence
Creators: name: Van der Straeten, Erik
name: Beck, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Statistical Finance (q-fin.ST)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: We report a general technique to study a given experimental time series with superstatistics. Crucial for the applicability of the superstatistics concept is the existence of a parameter $β$ that fluctuates on a large time scale as compared to the other time scales of the complex system under consideration. The proposed method extracts the main superstatistical parameters out of a given data set and examines the validity of the superstatistical model assumptions. We test the method thoroughly with surrogate data sets. Then the applicability of the superstatistical approach is illustrated using real experimental data. We study two examples, velocity time series measured in turbulent Taylor-Couette flows and time series of log returns of the closing prices of some stock market indices.
Decoupled systems on trial: Eliminating bottlenecks to improve aquaponic processes
Creators: name: Monsees, Hendrik
name: Kloas, Werner
name: Wuertz, Sven
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche

description: In classical aquaponics (coupled aquaponic systems, 1-loop systems) the production of fish in recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) and plants in hydroponics are combined in a single loop, entailing systemic compromises on the optimal production parameters (e.g. pH). Recently presented decoupled aquaponics (2-loop systems) have been awarded for eliminating major bottlenecks. In a pilot study, production in an innovative decoupled aquaponic system was compared with a coupled system and, as a control, a conventional RAS, assessing growth parameters of fish (FCR, SGR) and plants over an experimental period of 5 months. Soluble nutrients (NO3--N, NO2--N, NH4+-N, PO43-, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, SO42-, Cl2- and Fe2+), elemental composition of plants, fish and sludge (N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Na, C), abiotic factors (temperature, pH, oxygen, and conductivity), fertilizer and water consumption were determined. Fruit yield was 36% higher in decoupled aquaponics and pH and fertilizer management was more effective, whereas fish production was comparable in both systems. The results of this pilot study clearly illustrate the main advantages of decoupled, two-loop aquaponics and demonstrate how bottlenecks commonly encountered in coupled aquaponics can be managed to promote application in aquaculture.
Additional file 3 of A survey on Canadian pediatric hospital clinical/medical teaching unit implementation during the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Tsang, Kara K.
name: Latchman, Andrew
name: Singhal, Nishma
name: Federici, Giuliana
name: Russell, Sandra
name: Irwin, Denise
name: Stevens, Robyn
name: McArthur, Andrew G.
name: Khan, Sarah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 3.
Novel feature selection algorithms for improving neural network performance
Creators: name: Zhao, Z
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: Data mining and machine learning have become enormously pivotal in this Big Data time, as people are tremendously eager to predict from what they have known, and foresee the unknown. During the process of machine learning, selecting features that are genuinely useful and helpful to the prediction tasks remains a central issue, because a smaller but more relevant dataset can improve the performance of machine learning. In this thesis, the whole procedure of feature selection is investigated, beginning with a new data preparing method, Average Random Choosing Method (ARCM), which can solve Class Imbalance Problem. Experimental results show that ARCM can significantly improve the prediction accuracy of Artificial Neural Network (ANN) for imbalanced datasets, in comparison with other researches' results. After that, the new filter named Consistency Concentration Based Feature Selection (CCBFS) is introduced. It is based on the conception of consistency based feature selection (CBFS). CCBFS can evaluate each individual feature and works with both nominal and continuous features, which used to be a shortage of consistency based algorithms. A GA based wrapper is proposed after CCBFS. This Accumulate Elitism Genetic Algorithm (AEGA) searching approach for feature selection inherits the advantages of GA based methods: quick parallel searching and large searching space. AEGA also covers the limitation of GA such as slow converging speed. Especially for ANN, AEGA has good resistance on the unstable performance of MLP and shortens the training times. In the end, the hybrid structure Multi Combined Filter-Wrapper Feature Selection (MCFWFS) is introduced. This novel algorithm uses CCBFS to make a pre-selection and accelerate converging process for AEGA. The multi combined structure ensures fast computing time and large improvement of predictor's performances at the same time. It is designed for a wide range of real world problems, even with extremely large datasets. The main contributions of this research include a novel data preparing method (ARCM), a novel filter for feature ranking (CCBFS), a novel GA based wrapper (AEGA) and a novel structure of hybrid feature selection (MCFWFS). Experiments have demonstrated that these new algorithms have outstanding performances on many kinds of datasets and real world problems in the Machine Learning categories of classification and multi class recognition. This research provides new solutions for improving the machine learning performances and make up shortages of current feature selection methods at some extent.
Time generated by intrinsic observers
Creators: name: Svozil, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We shortly review the construction of knowledge by intrinsic observers. Intrinsic observers are embedded in a system and are inseparable parts thereof. The intrinsic viewpoint has to be contrasted with an extrinsic, "God's eye" viewpoint, from which the system can be observed externally without in any way changing it. This epistemological distinction has concrete, formalizable consequences. One consequence is the emergence of "complementarity" for intrinsic observers, even if the underlying system is totally deterministic (computable). Another consequence is the appearence of time and inertial frames for intrinsic observers. The necessary operational techniques are developed in the context of Cellular Automata. We finish with a somewhat speculative question. Given space-time frames generated by clocks which use sound waves for synchronization; why could supersonic travel not cause time paradoxes?
description: 5 pages
Entanglement and parametric resonance in driven quantum systems
Creators: name: Bastidas, V. M.
name: Reina, J. H.
name: Emary, C.
name: Brandes, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relationship between entanglement and parametric resonance in a system of two coupled time-dependent oscillators. As a measure of bipartite entanglement, we calculate the linear entropy for the reduced density operator, from which we study the entanglement dynamics. In particular, we find that the bipartite entanglement increases in time up to a maximal mixing scenario, when the set of auxiliary dynamical parameters are under parametric resonance. Moreover, we obtain a closed relationship between the correlations in the ground state, the localisation of the Wigner function in phase space, and the localisation of the wave function of the total system.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Exploring mass loss, low-Z accretion, and convective overshoot in solar models to mitigate the solar abundance problem
Creators: name: Guzik, Joyce Ann
name: Mussack, Katie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solar models using the new lower abundances of Asplund et al. (2005, 2009) or Caffau et al. (2008, 2009) do not agree as well with helioseismic inferences as models that use the higher Grevesse & Noels (1993) or Grevesse & Sauval (1998) abundances. Adopting the new abundances leads to models with sound speed discrepancies of up to 1.4$%$ below the base of the convection zone (compared to discrepancies of less than 0.4$%$ with the old abundances), a convection zone that is too shallow, and a convection zone helium abundance that is too low. Here we review briefly recent attempts to restore agreement, and we evaluate three changes to the models: early mass loss, accretion of low-Z material, and convective overshoot. One goal of these attempts is to explore models that could preserve the structure in the interior obtained with the old abundances while accommodating the new abundances at the surface. Although the mass-losing and accretion models show some improvement in agreement with seismic constraints, a satisfactory resolution to the solar abundance problem remains to be found. In addition, we perform a preliminary analysis of models with the Caffau et al. (2008, 2009) abundances that shows that the sound speed discrepancy is reduced to only about 0.6$%$ at the convection zone base, compared to 1.4$%$ for the Asplund et al. (2005) abundances and 0.4$%$ for the Grevesse & Noels (1993) abundances. Furthermore, including mass loss in models with the Caffau et al. (2008, 2009) abundances may improve sound speed agreement and help resolve the solar lithium problem.
description: Submitted to the Astrophysical Journal;Revised version that includes preliminary exploration of solar models using CO^5BOLD abundances and model with early main sequence mass loss
The flexibly ordered brain
Creators: name: Daws, Richard
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2021

description: I investigate the human brain systems involved in the cognitive control of behaviour. Using novel cognitive paradigms and brain imaging, I identify brain systems that support the flexible structuring of behaviour. I then observe how these systems are implicated in patients with depression as they respond to psilocybin therapy. In the first of three experiments, I observe the changes in healthy adult brain activation that are associated with task-switching. This demonstrated that remapping rules introduces a switching-cost to response speed and activates the multiple-demand (MD) network. Critically, switching-costs and MD activation were greater when the rules being remapped were of an abstract and higher-order nature. Going deeper, in the second experiment, I investigate how healthy adult brains mitigate switching-costs by structuring behaviour into efficient routines. I observe that learning to optimise and structure behaviour covaries with changes in MD and default mode network (DMN) activation alongside increases in between-network connectivity. These concurrent behavioural and neural adaptations imply that cognitive demand is minimised when behavioural routines are structured. Indeed, these mechanisms are known to have broad roles in flexibly adapting behaviour and, subsequently, they have been implicated in disorders such as depression. Using these insights, in the third experiment, I examine the neural basis of the treatment response to psilocybin in patients with depression. In two clinical trials, I find that treatment response covaried with global increases in between-network connectivity. Converging functional cartography measures indicated that this global shift in network organisation related to increased dynamic flexibility and integration of the MD and DMN. Together, the findings in this thesis indicate that a ‘flexibly ordered brain’, the adaptive sequencing of neurocognitive states, is a necessary feature of well-being and for successfully navigating the demands of daily life.
Paralimnophyes Brundin 1956
Creators: name: Namayandeh, Armin
name: Hudson, Patrick L.
name: Bogan, Daniel L.
name: Hudson, John P.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Chironomidae
Paralimnophyes

description: Paralimnophyes Brundin, 1956
Paralimnophyes trilineatus (Lundström, 1915) was reported from Alaska by Cranston & Oliver (1988) as Paralimnophyes arcticus Brundin, 1956 (i.e., junior synonym) based on three males found in the USNM collected by P.D. Hurd in late June at Utqiagvik, Alaska. This is the only species with known larvae inhabiting eutrophic lowland pools and ditches (Andersen et al. 2013). Brabets & Ourso (2013) reported collecting Paralimnophyes larvae from streams draining abandoned and reclaimed mined lands in Denali National Park and Preserve. Paralimnophyes larvae were also reported from Arctic coastal lakes (AWQMS 2005).
description: Published as part of Namayandeh, Armin, Hudson, Patrick L., Bogan, Daniel L. & Hudson, John P., 2024, Chironomidae (Diptera: Insecta) of Alaska, USA, with descriptions of new species and a checklist, pp. 1-95 in Zootaxa 5511 (1) on page 68, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5511.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13848177
The planetary nebula population of M33 and its metallicity gradient: A look into the galaxy's distant past
Creators: name: Magrini, Laura
name: Stanghellini, Letizia
name: Villaver, Eva
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Planetary Nebula (PN) population of M33 is studied via multi-fiber spectroscopy with Hectospec at the MMT. In this paper we present the spectra of 102 PNe, whereas plasma diagnostic and chemical abundances were performed on the 93 PNe where the necessary diagnostic lines were measured. About 20% of the PNe are compatible with being Type I; the rest of the sample is the progeny of an old disk stellar population, with main sequence masses M<3M${_\odot}$ and ages t$>$0.3 Gyr. By studying the elemental abundances of the PNe in the M33 disk we were able to infer that: (1) there is a tight correlation between O/H and Ne/H, broadly excluding the evolution of oxygen; (2) the average abundances of the $α$-elements are consistent with those of \hii regions, indicating a negligible global enrichment in the disk of M33 from the epoch of the formation of the PN progenitors to the present time; (3) the radial oxygen gradient across the M33 disk has a slope of -0.031$\pm$0.013 dex kpc$^{-1}$, in agreement, within the errors, with the corresponding gradient derived from HII regions. Our observations do not seem to imply that the metallicity gradient across the M33 disk has flattened considerably with time. We report also the discovery of a PN with Wolf-Rayet features, PN039, belonging the class of late [WC] stars
description: 25 pages, 12 figures, ApJ submitted
A theory of jet shapes and cross sections: from hadrons to nuclei
Creators: name: Vitev, Ivan
name: Wicks, Simon
name: Zhang, Ben-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For jets, with great power comes great opportunity. The unprecedented center of mass energies available at the LHC open new windows on the QGP: we demonstrate that jet shape and jet cross section measurements become feasible as a new, differential and accurate test of the underlying QCD theory. We present a first step in understanding these shapes and cross sections in heavy ion reactions. Our approach allows for detailed simulations of the experimental acceptance/cuts that help isolate jets in such high-multiplicity environment. It is demonstrated for the first time that the pattern of stimulated gluon emission can be correlated with a variable quenching of the jet rates and provide an approximately model-independent approach to determining the characteristics of the medium-induced bremsstrahlung spectrum. Surprisingly, in realistic simulations of parton propagation through the QGP we find a minimal increase in the mean jet radius even for large jet attenuation. Jet broadening is manifest in the tails of the energy distribution away from the jet axis and its quantification requires high statistics measurements that will be possible at the LHC.
description: 20 pages, 15 ps and eps figures
A study of the poetry of Irving Layton
Creators: name: Mayne, Seymour
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: This dissertation focuses on the phases of Irving Layton's growth and development as a poet, and the patterns of his vision. These phases are eightfold: the early poetry of the thirties; the poetry of the forties and Layton's involvement with First Statement and Northern Review; the poetry of the early fifties and his association with Contact Press; the two phases of satirical and meditative poetry of the intensive middle fifties; the poetry and prefaces of the late fifties and the consolidation of his .body of work; and the writings of the two phases of the early and late sixties. Each phase corresponds to a development in his poetry and his involvement with the Canadian literary community. The pattern of publication is closest to the real order of his development; the chronology reveals the nature of Layton's growth. The poetry of the thirties and forties contained the seeds of his later development and pointed to the directions he was to take. At these early phases he achieved some degree of definition which was to grow and widen rather than transform itself radically from book to book. The process of definition and redefinition, as revealed by this close study of his poems and his books, provides for the tension in his poetic growth. The poems and books, in their arrangements as well, indicate Layton's artistic intentions. They were also means for reshaping his own self-image as poet, and the device of the persona of the poet figure. The search and movement of Layton's poetics revolve around the self-image and persona of the poet. The image of the poet figure reflects itself in its varied aspects both in Layton's poetry and in his other writings—short fiction, critical articles, prefaces and forewords, literary and public correspondence. The dialectic for poetic realization finds its source in the poet figure. And the making of these self-images and personas moves as if in full circle. Ultimately, as in the last phase of the late sixties, the dialectic is one of completion and haunting, poetry and poet. Thus, each phase of Layton's poetry moves out from an initial stance and vision, and then completes itself in a manner that offers a new point of departure. All of Layton's poet figures and their attending personas are explored in the light of this poetic dialectic, as well as Layton's singular influence and contribution to the literary community of Canada, which stem from his vision of the poet.
The unsettled hearts in the West : self-representations of diasporic Chinese self-narratives in English, 1980s-1990s
Creators: name: Xia, F
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis considers the autobiographical narratives authored by Chinese immigrants to the West that were published in English during the 1980s and 1990s. Its particular focus is those texts recounting experiences during the Cultural Revolution. Common to these texts are descriptions of the authors' victimisation under the rule of the Communist Party of China. The accounts of their traumatic experiences as well as the sheer number of like publications mean these texts constitute a particular subgenre of autobiography. Literary critics label this body of work the 'literature of the wounded.' These personal accounts of the authors' experiences during the decade of China's Cultural Revolution‚ÄövÑvÆ1966‚Äö-1976‚ÄövÑvÆare widely accepted by Western readers as reliable sources of knowledge about Communist China. However, many scholars are circumspect about the facticity of these texts, particularly in relation to the specifics of the Cultural Revolution. While acknowledging the destructiveness of the Cultural Revolution, they argue that these traumatic narratives are also in several ways products of Cold War thinking, Western cultural influences and a ready market for such texts. Autobiographical tales of victimisation under Communist systems found a ready Western readership. This thesis argues that these immigrant Chinese narratives reflect the cultural and literary heritages of both China and the West. Influenced by these two distinct heritages, these diasporic Chinese authors retrieve those materials from their respective experiences that best articulate a particular construction of themselves. In order to argue this, the thesis is grounded in a comparative reading of this body of diasporic narratives‚ÄövÑvÆthe 'literature of the wounded'‚ÄövÑvÆagainst the narratives written by these diasporic authors' China-based contemporaries who also have written of their experiences during the Cultural Revolution. To flesh this out the thesis sketches the history of autobiographical writing in China (although the ancient texts were not recognised as autobiography until comparatively recently) and Western forms of autobiography.
Minimally doubled fermions at one loop
Creators: name: Capitani, Stefano
name: Weber, Johannes
name: Wittig, Hartmut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Minimally doubled fermions have been proposed as a cost-effective realization of chiral symmetry at non-zero lattice spacing. Using lattice perturbation theory at one loop, we study their renormalization properties. Specifically, we investigate the consequences of the breaking of hyper-cubic symmetry, which is a typical feature of this class of fermionic discretizations. Our results for the quark self-energy indicate that the four-momentum undergoes a renormalization which contains a linearly divergent piece. We also compute renormalization factors for quark bilinears, construct the conserved vector and axial-vector currents and verify that at one loop the renormalization factors of the latter are equal to one.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, discussion of renormalization of four-momentum modified, increased numerical precision of one-loop integrals, results and conclusions unchanged
An experimental validation and extension of Fiedler's contingency model of leadership effectiveness
Creators: name: Saha, Sudhir Kumar
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Fiedler's Contingency Model suggests that task-oriented leaders are more effective where the leadership situation is either very favourable or very unfavourable and that relations-oriented leaders are more effective in situations of intermediate favourability. This model was put here to an empirical test using three-man laboratory group performing either a structured or an unstructured task. An effort was also made to extend the model by investigating the effect of three new variables, namely, intelligence, ability and motivation as determinants of situation favourability for a leader. Based on earlier conjectures by Hill and Fiedler, it was predicted that the degree of intelligence and ability as well as the level of motivation of leaders and group members will determine how effective a leader would be in achieving higher group productivity. One hundred and forty-seven Commerce undergraduate students of the University of British Columbia participated in the investigation. They were assigned to 49 groups of three people. One of the three people in each group was appointed as leader on the basis of a sociometric preference rating. Leadership situations were created by manipulating task structure, leader position power, leader member relations, intelligence, ability and motivation. Group productivity was rated using two criteria of performance - speed and quality of group decision. It was hypothesized that group decisions of higher quality and greater speed will be associated with higher intelligence, ability and motivation of leaders and group members. The results provided moderate support for the Contingency Model predictions in terms of direction and magnitude of correlations between leadership style and group productivity. Most of the correlations, however, failed to satisfy the test of statistical significance. In the extension part of the study, the results showed that (1) motivation significantly affected the speed of group decision and contributed to the leadership effectiveness; (2) intelligence of leaders and group members significantly affected both the quality and speed of group decision; (3) ability as operationally defined by a self-esteem measure did not influence either the speed or the quality of group problem solving; (4) motivation did not influence quality of group output. On the basis of findings in (1), (2), (3) and (4) above, it was concluded that intelligence, motivation and perhaps ability should be incorporated in future studies of the Contingency Model as parameters of situation favourability.
A decade of high-resolution radio observations of GRS 1915+105
Creators: name: Rushton, A.
name: Spencer, R. E.
name: Pooley, G.
name: Trushkin, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The radio emitting X-ray binary GRS 1915+105 shows a wide variety of X-ray and radio states. We present a decade of monitoring observations, with the RXTE-ASM and the Ryle Telescope, in conjunction with high-resolution radio observations using MERLIN and the VLBA. Linear polarisation at 1.4 and 1.6 GHz has been spatially resolved in the radio jets, on a scale of ~150 mas and at flux densities of a few mJy. Depolarisation of the core occurs during radio flaring, associated with the ejection of relativistic knots of emission. We have identified the ejection at four epochs of X-ray flaring. Assuming no deceleration, proper motions of 16.5 to 27 mas per day have been observed, supporting the hypothesis of a varying angle to the line-of-sight per ejection, perhaps in a precessing jet.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables to be published in MNRAS
Convict labour at Brickendon : the diary of William Archer Senior
Creators: name: Gregg, AJ
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: The Archer family, of Longford Tasmania, hold a privileged position in the story of colonial Van Diemen's Land. Not only were they one of the largest landholders but, between the various strains of the family, they controlled an enviable amount of land and capital - both human and fiscal. William Archer Senior was born in 1754, and is described as a 'pious man, level headed, demanding the best from himself, and expecting that others would act in the same manner as himself, with integrity and consideration' .2 In a social sense, William Snr' s position as mill owner and miller placed him squarely amongst the newly ascendant middling sort. At the age of seventy-three, William Snr emigrated to Van Diemen's Land. He arrived fifteen years after his son Thomas had disembarked in Sydney. He was also following in the footsteps of two other sons, Joseph who had arrived in 1821 and William Jnr who had arrived in 1824.3 Given the length of the passage to Van Diemen's Land and the many discomforts and dangers this entailed one is entitled to inquire into the factors that might entice or compel a septuagenarian member of the English middle-class to emigrate.
Reversible computation as a model for the quantum measurement process
Creators: name: Svozil, Karl
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One-to-one reversible automata are introduced. Their applicability to a modelling of the quantum mechanical measurement process is discussed.
description: 5 pages
ANIMA D2.4 - Recommendations on annoyance mitigation and implications for communication and engagement
Creators: name: Haubrich, Julia
name: Burtea, Narcisa Elena
name: Flindell, Ian
name: Hooper, Paul
name: Hudson, Rebecca
name: Rajé, Fiona
name: Radulescu, Dan
name: Schreckenberg, Dirk
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: This deliverable D2.4 is embedded in ANIMA work package WP2 – “Critical Review and Assessment of Noise Impact and Related Management Practices.” It refers to subtask 2.2.2 and serves – in conjunction with deliverable D2.3 from subtask 2.2.1 – the critical review of noise impact (task 2.2). This deliverable has three main topics. While deliverable D2.3 deals with aircraft noise-related health impacts in general, here (1) annoyance as an outcome is at the centre stage. Moreover, this deliverable (2) pursues a holistic approach to the emergence, maintenance and, especially, mitigation of aircraft noise annoyance. That is, in addition to acoustic variables, in particular the range of non-acoustical contributors is also examined, as well as the combined effects and interactions of acoustical and non-acoustical variables. Finally, based on the findings, (3) implications and recommendations for noise management strategies are derived and presented. The centrepieces to achieving these objectives are several systematic literature reviews.
Writing for change : persuasion across the school years
Creators: name: Thomas, Damon
Publisher: name: University Of Tasmania
Year: 2023

description: This thesis is about young people and their attempts to persuade others. It explicates valued language choices in the highest scoring persuasive texts written by Tasmanian primary and secondary school students for the 2011 NAPLAN writing test. In the new Australian Curriculum: English, persuasive writing is expected to be taught from Year 1, and this form of writing becomes increasingly prominent as students progress from primary to secondary school and beyond. As a result, research into valued persuasive genre and language choices in educational settings has been skewed to the upper secondary and tertiary levels. While educational linguists like Frances Christie and Beverly Derewianka have outlined the sorts of language choices primary school students can make to meet the social purposes of a range of genres, how they structure texts and use resources of language specifically to persuade others remain unknown. Fuelled by a high-stakes national testing program, the pressure to support students to produce cogent arguments has never been greater in Australia, and knowledge about valued genre and language choices in the primary and secondary years would provide educators with clarity and direction to achieve this. Beyond the needs of the curriculum, there are many benefits in helping young people to understand the use of persuasive writing in sustaining democratic rights and freedoms in Australia. A majority of young Australians lack interest in and understanding of Australia's political system, and are not actively engaging in democratic practices at a grassroots level. With much persuasive writing instruction in Australian schools focusing on NAPLAN-like tests that are disconnected from authentic, real-world issues facing students, there is much potential to reinvent how we engage young people in persuasive discourse. This study features the creation of an analytical frameworks composed of systems and principles from classical rhetoric and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to unpack students' genre and language choices from two perspectives. High scoring texts from each year level that completed the 2011 NAPLAN test are unpacked at the levels of genre and discourse to make visible the valued choices in their writing. The study's findings suggest ways that educators can better prepare students to think and write persuasively. A range of frameworks are provided that map the increasing complexity of students' persuasive genre and language choices across primary and secondary school years, highlighting the sorts of rhetorical strategies deemed by markers to warrant high scores. The study has been designed to assist educators and researchers to promote and analyse the production of high quality persuasive texts for authentic purposes.
Long-slit spectrophotometry of the multiple knots of the polar ring galaxy IIZw71
Creators: name: Perez-Montero, Enrique
name: Garcia-Benito, Ruben
name: Diaz, Angeles I.
name: Perez, Enrique
name: Kehrig, Carolina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carried out long-slit spectroscopic observations of the star forming knots along the polar ring of the dwarf galaxy IIZw71 in the spectral range 3500 - 10000 angstroms taken with the William erschel Telescope (WHT). The spectroscopic observations were complemented with available photometry of the galaxy in the narrow Halpha filter. We measured the rotation curve of the ring, from which we infer a ratio M/L_B = 3.9 inside the star forming ring. We measured the auroral [OIII] line in the two brightest knots, allowing us to measure oxygen, sulphur, nitrogen, argon and neon chemical abundances following the direct method. Different empirical calibrators were used to estimate the oxygen abundance in the two faintest knots. The metallicities obtained are very similar for all the knots, but lower than previously reported in the literature from integrated spectra. The N/O abundance, as derived from the N2O2 parameter, is remarkably constant over the ring, indicating that local polution processes are not conspicuous. Using synthetic stellar populations (SSPs) calculated with the code STARLIGHT, we studied the age distribution of the stellar populations in each knot, finding that in all of them there is a combination of a very young population with less than 10 Myr, responsible for the ionisation of the gas, with other populations older than 100 Myr, probably responsible for the chemical evolution of the knots. The small differences in metallicity and the age distributions among the different knots are indicative of a common chemical evolution, probably related to the process of interaction with the companion galaxy IIZw70.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics, language edited, typos corrected
Dynamical instabilities of dissipative solitons in nonlinear optical cavities with nonlocal materials
Creators: name: Gelens, Lendert
name: Gomila, Damia
name: Van der Sande, Guy
name: Danckaert, Jan
name: Colet, Pere
name: Matias, Manuel A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we characterize the dynamical instabilities of localized structures exhibited by a recently introduced Gelens et al., Phys. Rev. A 75, 063812 2007 generalization of the Lugiato-Lefever model that includes a weakly nonlocal response of an intracavity metamaterial. A rich scenario, in which the localized structures exhibit different types of oscillatory instabilities, tristability, and excitability, including a regime of conditional excitability in which the system is bistable, is presented and discussed. Finally, it is shown that the scenario is organized by a pair of Takens-Bogdanov codimension-2 points.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures
Планирование семьи: влияние внешних и внутренних факторов
Creators: name: Егор Сергеевич Сухарев
Publisher: name: Человек. Общество. Инклюзия
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ключевые слова семья
социально-экономические факторы
демография
государство
общество
социально-экономическая политика.
Keywords family
socio-economic factors
demography
state
society
socio-economic policy.

description: Аннотация В статье рассмотрена актуальность темы семейно-демографической политики с научным обоснованием стратегии государственной помощи семье в реализации её основных функций. Цель исследования – определить цели и задачи политики планирования семьи: проанализировать особенности демографической ситуации в России; социально-экономические факторы, а также объекты и основные направления реализации семейной политики. Объектом исследования статьи является семья, предметом изучения – социальный и демографический аспекты процесса планирования семьи. В материале обсуждаются приоритетные задачи современного общества на основе и в формате социального государства – а именно: укрепление семьи и семейных ценностей, повышение престижа родительства, просвещение и формирование более высоких репродуктивных установок у населения, работа с женщиной и семьей в кризисных ситуациях, проблема защиты репродуктивной функции семьи, выбор и планирование индивидуальной семейной стратегии.
description: Abstract The purpose of the article is the relevance of the topic of family and demographic policy due to the scientific justification of the strategy of state assistance to the family in the implementation of its main functions. The purpose of the article is to consider the goals and objectives of family planning policy to analyze the features of the demographic situation in Russia; socio-economic factors, as well as the objects and main directions of family policy implementation. The object of the article is the family, the subject of the study is the social and demographic aspects of the family planning process. Strengthening the «family» is a priority task of modern society based on and in the format of a welfare state. The continuation of oneself in children is perhaps the most natural need inherent in human nature itself – the birth of children not only preserves and strengthens physical and psychological health, but ultimately stimulates human social activity. The integrity and reliability of the family is one of the main «building blocks» of the overall security of each of us and the country as a whole. Strengthening family values and increasing the prestige of parenthood help solve many issues, such as education and the formation of higher reproductive attitudes; working with women and family in crisis situations, and others. Strengthening the family allows you not only to protect the reproductive function of the family, but also to choose and plan your family strategy.
Additional file 1 of Age-appropriate vaccination coverage and its determinants in children aged 12–36 months in Nepal: a national and subnational assessment
Creators: name: Rauniyar, Santosh Kumar
name: Iwaki, Yoko
name: Yoneoka, Daisuke
name: Hashizume, Masahiro
name: Nomura, Shuhei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1.
Water and ammonia abundances in S140 with the Odin satellite
Creators: name: Persson, C. M.
name: Olberg, M.
name: Hjalmarson, A.
name: Spaans, M.
name: Black, J. H.
name: Frisk, U.
name: Liljestrom, T.
name: Olofsson, A. O. H.
name: Poelman, D. R.
name: Sandqvist, Aa.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have used the Odin satellite to obtain strip maps of the ground-state rotational transitions of ortho-water and ortho-ammonia, as well as CO(5-4) and 13CO(5-4) across the PDR, and H218O in the central position. A physi-chemical inhomogeneous PDR model was used to compute the temperature and abundance distributions for water, ammonia and CO. A multi-zone escape probability method then calculated the level populations and intensity distributions. These results are compared to a homogeneous model computed with an enhanced version of the RADEX code. H2O, NH3 and 13CO show emission from an extended PDR with a narrow line width of ~3 kms. Like CO, the water line profile is dominated by outflow emission, however, mainly in the red wing. The PDR model suggests that the water emission mainly arises from the surfaces of optically thick, high density clumps with n(H2)>10^6 cm^-3 and a clump water abundance, with respect to H2, of 5x10^-8. The mean water abundance in the PDR is 5x10^-9, and between ~2x10^-8 -- 2x10^-7 in the outflow derived from a simple two-level approximation. Ammonia is also observed in the extended clumpy PDR, likely from the same high density and warm clumps as water. The average ammonia abundance is about the same as for water: 4x10^-9 and 8x10^-9 given by the PDR model and RADEX, respectively. The similarity of water and ammonia PDR emission is also seen in the almost identical line profiles observed close to the bright rim. Around the central position, ammonia also shows some outflow emission although weaker than water in the red wing. Predictions of the H2O(110-101) and (111-000) antenna temperatures across the PDR are estimated with our PDR model for the forthcoming observations with the Herschel Space Observatory.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures, 10 tables. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics 14 November 2008
Теоретические основы управления в банковской сфере: российский и зарубежный опыт
Creators: name: Косарев Иван Владимирович
Publisher: name: Человек. Общество. Инклюзия
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ключевые слова управление в банках
модели управления
эффективность управления
цифровизация
человеческий фактор.
Keywords Management in banks
management models
management efficiency
digitalization
human factor.

description: В настоящее время банковский сектор России переживает значительные изменения в модели управления. Перемены обусловлены необходимостью повышения эффективности управленческих процессов и адаптации к глобальным тенденциям цифровизации. Однако реализация современных подходов к управлению в банковской сфере сталкивается с объективными ограничениями, связанными с отраслевыми особенностями и национальными чертами развития экономики. Данная статья посвящена теоретическому анализу основных моделей управления в банковской сфере на основе изучения отечественного и зарубежного опыта. Рассматриваются основные подходы к классификации моделей управления банками, а также критерии их эффективности. На основании сравнительного анализа практики функционирования крупнейших российских и зарубежных банков выделены основные тенденции развития системы управления в банковском секторе. Особое внимание уделяется методологическим аспектам адаптации зарубежного опыта к российским реалиям с учётом институциональных особенностей.
description: Currently, the Russian banking sector is undergoing significant changes in the management model, which are due to the need to improve the efficiency of management processes and adapt to global trends in digitalization. However, the implementation of modern approaches to management in the banking sector faces objective limitations related to industry characteristics and national features of economic development. This article is devoted to the theoretical analysis of the main management models in the banking sector based on the study of domestic and foreign experience. The main approaches to the classification of bank management models, as well as criteria for their effectiveness, are considered. Based on a comparative analysis of the operating practices of the largest Russian and foreign banks, the main trends in the development of the management system in the banking sector are highlighted. Special attention is paid to the methodological aspects of adapting foreign experience to Russian realities, taking into account institutional peculiarities.
QFT as pilot-wave theory of particle creation and destruction
Creators: name: Nikolic, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: States in quantum field theory (QFT) are represented by many-particle wave functions, such that a state describing n particles depends on n spacetime positions. Since a general state is a superposition of states with different numbers of particles, the wave function lives in the configuration space identified with a product of an infinite number of 4-dimensional Minkowski spacetimes. The squared absolute value of the wave function is interpreted as the probability density in the configuration space, from which the standard probabilistic predictions of QFT can be recovered. Such a formulation and probabilistic interpretation of QFT allows to interpret the wave function as a pilot wave that describes deterministic particle trajectories, which automatically includes a deterministic and continuous description of particle creation and destruction. In particular, when the conditional wave function associated with a quantum measurement ceases to depend on one of the spacetime coordinates, then the 4-velocity of the corresponding particle vanishes, describing a trajectory that stops at a particular point in spacetime. In a more general situation a dependence on this spacetime coordinate is negligibly small but not strictly zero, in which case the trajectory does not stop but the measuring apparatus still behaves as if this particle has been destroyed.
description: 29 pages, 2 figures, version accepted for publication in Int. J. Mod. Phys. A
Coexistence of superconductivity and a spin density wave in pnictides: Gap symmetry and nodal lines
Creators: name: Parker, D.
name: Vavilov, M. G.
name: Chubukov, A. V.
name: Mazin, I. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the effect of a spin-density wave (SDW) on $s_{\pm}$ superconductivity in Fe-based superconductors. We show that, contrary to the common wisdom, no nodes open at the new, reconnected Fermi surfaces when the hole and electron pockets fold down in the SDW state, despite the fact that the $s_{\pm}$ gap changes sign between the two pockets. Instead, the order parameter preserves its sign along the newly formed Fermi surfaces. The familiar experimental signatures of an $s_{\pm}$ symmetry are still preserved, although they appear in a mathematically different way. For a regular $s$ case ($s_{++})$ the nodes do appear in the SDW state. This distinction suggests a novel simple way to experimentally separate an $s_{\pm}$ state from a regular $s$ in the pnictides. We argue that recently published thermal conductivity data in the coexisting state are consistent with the $s_{\pm},$ but not the $s_{++}$ state.