cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The multifrequency behaviour of the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi
Creators: name: Ribeiro, Valério A. R. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This review concentrates on the multifrequency behaviour of RS Ophiuchi and in particular during its latest outburst. Confirmation of the 1945 outburst, bipolar outflows and its possible fate as a Type Ia Supernova are discussed.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures, in The Golden Age of Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects, F. Giovannelli & L. Sabau-Graziati (eds.), Mem. SAIt. 83 N.2 (in press)
Revisiting Guerry's data: Introducing spatial constraints in multivariate analysis
Creators: name: Dray, Stéphane
name: Jombart, Thibaut
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Standard multivariate analysis methods aim to identify and summarize the main structures in large data sets containing the description of a number of observations by several variables. In many cases, spatial information is also available for each observation, so that a map can be associated to the multivariate data set. Two main objectives are relevant in the analysis of spatial multivariate data: summarizing covariation structures and identifying spatial patterns. In practice, achieving both goals simultaneously is a statistical challenge, and a range of methods have been developed that offer trade-offs between these two objectives. In an applied context, this methodological question has been and remains a major issue in community ecology, where species assemblages (i.e., covariation between species abundances) are often driven by spatial processes (and thus exhibit spatial patterns). In this paper we review a variety of methods developed in community ecology to investigate multivariate spatial patterns. We present different ways of incorporating spatial constraints in multivariate analysis and illustrate these different approaches using the famous data set on moral statistics in France published by André-Michel Guerry in 1833. We discuss and compare the properties of these different approaches both from a practical and theoretical viewpoint.
description: Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/10-AOAS356 the Annals of Applied Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aoas/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Einfluss von Trockenstress auf Polyamine und Sperminsynthasen in Gerste (Hordeum vulgare)
Creators: name: Pietack, Sebastian
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Gerste
subject: Trockenheit
subject: Stressreaktion
subject: 572

description: Abiotischer Stress begrenzt den Ernteertrag von Nutzpflanzen. In Gerste (Hordeum vulgare, Hv) vermindert Trockenstress (TrStr) u.a. die Kornfüllrate und das Korngewicht. In der Modellpflanze Arabidopsis thaliana ist das Polyamin Spermin (SPM) am Schutz vor Trocken-und Salzstress beteiligt. In dieser Dissertation wird der Einfluss von TrStr auf Polyamine und auf die Veränderungen der Transkriptmengen von Sperminsynthasen (SPMS) in Hv untersucht. Zwei HvSPMS wurden identifiziert und in vitro funktionell und kinetisch charakterisiert. Sie bilden ausschließlich SPM, Thermospermin war als Produkt nicht nachweisbar. In TrStr-Experimenten mit wassergestressten Pflanzen wurden die Transkriptmengen der HvSPMS-Gene bei moderatem und starkem TrStr gegenüber Kontrollniveau erhöht. Die Putrescin- und SPM-Gehalte stiegen gegenüber den Kontrollen, der Spermidin-Gehalt veränderte sich nur wenig. Die HvSPMS-Gene können somit als Markergene für die Effekte von moderaten und starken TrStr genutzt werden.
description: Abiotic stress limits the yield of crop plants. In barley (Hordeum vulgare, Hv), drought stress (DrStr) reduces grain filling rate and final grain weight. In the model plant in Arabidopsis thaliana, the level of the polyamine spermine (SPM) corresponds to drought and salt stress. This project aims at polyamines and the changes of transcript levels of spermine synthases (SPMS) in Hv reacting to DrStr. Two HvSPMS were identified and functionally and kinetically characterized in vitro. They form SPM only; thermospermine was not detected as product. In DrStr experiments with water stressed plants transcript levels of both HvSPMS genes were increased compared to control level at moderate and strong DrStr. Polyamine contents, putrescine and spermine in particular, were elevated under water stress, while spermidine content increased slightly. Thus HvSPMS gene activity can be used as marker for moderate and strong DrStr.
Holographic models and the QCD trace anomaly
Creators: name: Goity, Jose L.
name: Trinchero, Roberto C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Five dimensional dilaton models are considered as possible holographic duals of the pure gauge QCD vacuum. In the framework of these models, the QCD trace anomaly equation is considered. Each quantity appearing in that equation is computed by holographic means. Two exact solutions for different dilaton potentials corresponding to perturbative and non-perturbative beta-functions are studied. It is shown that in the perturbative case, where the beta-function is the QCD one at leading order, the resulting space is not asymptotically AdS. In the non-perturbative case, the model considered presents confinement of static quarks and leads to a non-vanishing gluon condensate, although it does not correspond to an asymptotically free theory. In both cases analyses based on the trace anomaly and on Wilson loops are carried out.
description: 18 pages 1 figure In this revised version, the section on the analysis of the Wilson loop was improved, and a section was added on the matching of the calculations of the gluon condensate via the d+1 dim action and the Wilson loop
Detecting Pitch Accent Using Pitch-corrected Energy-based Predictors: Presentation Slides
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Rosenberg, Andrew
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computer science
subject: Information technology
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Previous work has shown that the energy components of frequency subbands with a variety of frequencies and bandwidths predict pitch accent with various degrees of accuracy, and produce correct predictions for distinct subsets of data points. In this paper, we describe a series of experiments exploring techniques to leverage the predictive power of these energy components by including pitch and duration features – other known correlates to pitch accent. We perform these experiments on Standard American English read, spontaneous and broadcast news speech, each corpus containing at least four speakers. Using an approach by which we correct energy-based predictions using pitch and duration information prior to using a majority voting classifier, we were able to detect pitch accent in read, spontaneous and broadcast news speech at 84.0%, 88.3 % and 88.5 % accuracy, respectively. Human performance at pitch accent detection is generally taken to be between 85 % and 90%.
A derivation of the free-free emission on the Galactic plane between l=20 and 44 degrees
Creators: name: Alves, Marta I. R.
name: Davies, Rodney D.
name: Dickinson, Clive
name: Calabretta, Mark
name: Davis, Richard
name: Staveley-Smith, Lister
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the derivation of the free-free emission on the Galactic plane between l=20 and 44 degrees and |b| < 4 degrees, using Radio Recombination Line (RRL) data from the HI Parkes All-Sky Survey (HIPASS). Following an upgrade on the RRL data reduction technique, which improves significantly the quality of the final RRL spectra, we have extended the analysis to three times the area covered in Alves et al. (2010). The final RRL map has an angular resolution of 14.8 arcmin and a velocity resolution of 20 km/s. A map of the electron temperature (Te) of the ionised gas is derived for the area under study using the line and continuum data from the present survey. The mean Te on the Galactic plane is 6000 K. The first direct measure of the free-free emission is obtained based on the derived Te map. Subtraction of this thermal component from the total continuum leaves the first direct measure of the synchrotron emission at 1.4 GHz. A narrow component of width 2 degrees is identified in the latitude distribution of the synchrotron emission. We present a list of HII regions and SNRs extracted from the present free-free and synchrotron maps, where we confirm the synchrotron nature of three objects: G41.12-0.21, G41.15+0.39 and G35.59-0.44. We also identify a bright (42 Jy) new double radio galaxy, J1841-0152, previously unrecognised owing to the high optical extinction in the region. The latitude distribution for the RRL-derived free-free emission shows that the WMAP Maximum Entropy Method (MEM) is too high by ~ 50 per cent, in agreement with other recent results. The extension of this study to the inner Galaxy region l=-50 to 50 degrees will allow a better overall comparison of the RRL result with WMAP.
description: 17 pages, 15 figures. Submitted to MNRAS
Additional file 2 of Saving babies’ lives (SBL) – a programme to reduce neonatal mortality in rural Cambodia: study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial
Creators: name: Patel, Kaajal
name: Say, Sopheakneary
name: Leng, Daly
name: Prak, Manila
name: Lo, Koung
name: Mukaka, Mavuto
name: Riedel, Arthur
name: Turner, Claudia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Infographic of whole health system strengthening (own image). Infographic of health system strengthening approach in the study province. The village (community) and health centre (primary care facility) components comprise the stepped-wedge cluster-randomised intervention. The hospital component is an additional capacity-building component implemented in parallel.
Incorporation of a Late-forming Chondrule into Comet Wild 2
Creators: name: Ogliore, R. C.
name: Huss, G. R.
name: Nagashima, K.
name: Butterworth, A. L.
name: Gainsforth, Z.
name: Stodolna, J.
name: Westphal, A. J.
name: Joswiak, D.
name: Tyliszczak, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the petrology, O isotopic composition, and Al-Mg isotope systematics of a chondrule fragment from the Jupiter-family comet Wild 2, returned to Earth by NASA's Stardust mission. This object shows characteristics of a type II chondrule that formed from an evolved oxygen isotopic reservoir. No evidence for extinct 26Al was found, with (26Al/ 27Al)0 < 3.0 x 10^-6. Assuming homogenous distribution of 26Al in the solar nebula, this particle crystallized at least 3 Myr after the earliest solar system objects--relatively late compared to most chondrules in meteorites. We interpret the presence of this object in a Kuiper Belt body as evidence of late, large-scale transport of small objects between the inner and outer solar nebula. Our observations constrain the formation of Jupiter (a barrier to outward transport if it formed further from the Sun than this cometary chondrule) to be more than 3 Myr after calcium-aluminum-rich inclusionss.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJL
Use of deep linguistic features for the recognition and labeling of semantic arguments
Creators: name: Chen, John
name: Rambow, Owen
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2003
Subjects: Information technology
Computer science

description: We use deep linguistic features to predict semantic roles on syntactic arguments, and show that these perform considerably better than surface-oriented features. We also show that predicting labels from a "lightweight" parser that generates deep syntactic features performs comparably to using a full parser that generates only surface syntactic features.
Generating Instructions in Virtual Environments (GIVE):
A Challenge and an Evaluation Testbed for NLG
Creators: name: Byron, Donna
name: Koller, Alexander
name: Oberlander, Jon
name: Stoia, Laura
name: Striegnitz, Kristina
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: Computer science

description: Would it be helpful or detrimental for the ﬁeld of NLG to have a generally accepted competition? Competitions have deﬁnitely advanced the state of the art in some ﬁelds of NLP, but the beneﬁts sometimes come at the price of over-competitiveness, and there is a danger of overﬁtting systems to the concrete evaluation metrics. Moreover, it has been argued that there are intrinsic difﬁculties in NLG that make it harder to evaluate than other NLP tasks (Scott and Moore, 2006).
Association of Efimov trimers from a three-atom continuum
Creators: name: Machtey, Olga
name: Shotan, Zav
name: Gross, Noam
name: Khaykovich, Lev
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an experimental technique for rf-association of Efimov trimers from three-atoms continuum. We apply it to probe the lowest accessible Efimov energy level in bosonic lithium in the region where strong deviations from the universal behavior are expected, and provide quantitative study of this effect. Position of the Efimov resonance at the atom-dimer threshold, measured with a different experimental technique, concurs with the rf-association results.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Exploring men’s distress and help-seeking within male-dominated workplaces
Creators: name: Stewart, Jessica
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Systematic Literature Review Eighteen articles examining mental health help-seeking of men within male-dominated occupations were identified and subjected to a systematic analysis. A narrative synthesis was used, selected with a focus on conceptualisation, measurement tools, and predictors. Eleven distinct measurement tools were identified to measure help-seeking across the papers, precluding meta-analysis. Predictors included mental health awareness, workplace factors, wellbeing, rurality, and stigma-related barriers. Interventions capitalised on mental health awareness, self-help, connection, and feedback. This review highlights the disparate nature of relevant literature, making a clear conceptualisation challenging. Future research in this area should aim for greater coherence in application of measurement tools, underpinned by models of help-seeking, permitting more nuanced and complete understanding of these processes in mainly male workforces. Research Paper Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) was used to explore six men’s experiences of losing a colleague to suicide within the construction industry. Three super-ordinate themes were identified: The stronger the better in this industry’ described a cultural context that privileges dominance and stigmatises help-seeking; ‘Responding to loss’ depicted variations in emotional responses, and a need for connection from peers/company; and ‘Learning and Evolving’, which depicted a hope to learn from their experience. Findings were discussed in relation to previous existing research and theory. Suggested implications from this study may be used to develop experience and theory driven postvention protocols.
Concurrency Control in Rule-Based Software Development Environments
Creators: name: Barghouti, Naser S.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 1992
Subjects: Computer science

description: This dissertation investigates the concurrency control problem in software development environments (SDEs). The problem arises when multiple developers perform activities that concurrently access the project's components, stored as database objects. The interleaved execution of the developers' activities leads to interference if they access overlapping sets of objects concurrently. An SDE can ensure that activities never interfere by modeling their execution in terms of atomic transactions and allowing only serializable schedules. This prevents cooperation, which requires some degree of interference between the activities of multiple developers. To allow cooperation, an SDE must be provided with semantic information about development activities. In rule-based SDEs, the necessary information is readily available in the set of rules that defines the process model of a project. The rules are loaded into the SDE, which provides process-specific assistance through a rule chaining engine. A single user command might lead the chaining engine to initiate a rule chain. The concurrency control problem in rule-based SDEs manifests itself in terms of interference between concurrent rule chains. We present a mechanism that extracts semantic information from the process model to solve the concurrency control problem without obstructing cooperation. The mechanism is composed of two modules: (1) a conflict detection module, which models activities as nested transactions and uses two-phase locking to detect interference; and (2) a conflict resolution module, which employs two protocols to resolve interference. The first protocol, seep, uses the process model to implement a priority-based scheme that aborts the "least important" of the interfering transactions. The second protocol, peep, overrides SCCP by consulting process-specific control rules, written by the project administration. Each control rule describes a specific interference and the actions that resolve it. We have implemented SCCP and parts ofPCCP in MARVEL, a multi-user rule-based SDE developed at Columbia.
Turn-Yielding Cues in Task-Oriented Dialogue: Presentation Slides
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Gravano, Agustin
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science
Information technology
Communication

description: We examine a number of objective, automatically computable TURN-YIELDING CUES — distinct prosodic, acoustic and syntactic events in a speaker’s speech that tend to precede a smooth turn exchange —
in the Columbia Games Corpus, a large corpus of task-oriented dialogues. We show that the likelihood of occurrence of a turn-taking attempt from the interlocutor increases linearly with the number of cues conjointly displayed by the speaker. Our results are important for improving the coordination of speaking turns in interactive voice-response systems, so that systems can correctly estimate when the user is willing to yield the conversational ﬂoor, and so that they can produce their own turn-yielding cues appropriately.
Ghost-free Massive Gravity with a General Reference Metric
Creators: name: Hassan, S. F.
name: Rosen, Rachel A.
name: Schmidt-May, Angnis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theories of massive gravity inevitably include an auxiliary reference metric. Generically, they also contain an inconsistency known as the Boulware-Deser ghost. Recently, a family of non-linear massive gravity actions, formulated with a flat reference metric, were proposed and shown to be ghost free at the complete non-linear level. In this paper we consider these non-linear massive gravity actions but now formulated with a general reference metric. We extend the proof of the absence of the Boulware-Deser ghost to this case. The analysis is carried out in the ADM formalism at the complete non-linear level. We show that in these models there always exists a Hamiltonian constraint which, with an associated secondary constraint, eliminates the ghost. This result considerably extends the range of known consistent non-linear massive gravity theories. In addition, these theories can also be used to describe a massive spin-2 field in an arbitrary, fixed gravitational background. We also discuss the positivity of the Hamiltonian.
description: v2: references, comments and a new subsection 3.5 added, discussion of the secondary constraint updated
General Theory of Geometric Lévy Models for Dynamic Asset Pricing
Creators: name: Brody, Dorje C.
name: Hughston, Lane P.
name: Mackie, Ewan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Pricing of Securities (q-fin.PR)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The geometric Lévy model (GLM) is a natural generalisation of the geometric Brownian motion model (GBM) used in the derivation of the Black-Scholes formula. The theory of such models simplifies considerably if one takes a pricing kernel approach. In one dimension, once the underlying Lévy process has been specified, the GLM has four parameters: the initial price, the interest rate, the volatility, and the risk aversion. The pricing kernel is the product of a discount factor and a risk aversion martingale. For GBM, the risk aversion parameter is the market price of risk. For a GLM, this interpretation is not valid: the excess rate of return is a nonlinear function of the volatility and the risk aversion. It is shown that for positive volatility and risk aversion the excess rate of return above the interest rate is positive, and is increasing with respect to these variables. In the case of foreign exchange, Siegel's paradox implies that one can construct foreign exchange models for which the excess rate of return is positive both for the exchange rate and the inverse exchange rate. This condition is shown to hold for any geometric Lévy model for foreign exchange in which volatility exceeds risk aversion.
description: 20 pages, version to appear in Proceedings of the Royal Society London A
Additional file 3 of Saving babies’ lives (SBL) – a programme to reduce neonatal mortality in rural Cambodia: study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster-randomised trial
Creators: name: Patel, Kaajal
name: Say, Sopheakneary
name: Leng, Daly
name: Prak, Manila
name: Lo, Koung
name: Mukaka, Mavuto
name: Riedel, Arthur
name: Turner, Claudia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. SPIRIT checklist. Completed SPIRIT checklist including the page number from this manuscript where the issue is addressed.
An Unsupervised Approach to Biography Production using Wikipedia: Presentation Slides
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Biadsy, Fadi
name: Filatova, Elena
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: Computer science
Information technology

description: We describe an unsupervised approach to multi-document sentence-extraction based summarization for the task of producing biographies. We utilize Wikipedia to automatically construct a corpus of biographical sentences and TDT4 to construct a corpus of non-biographical sentences. We build a biographical-sentence classiﬁer from these corpora and an SVM regression model for sentence ordering from the Wikipedia corpus. We evaluate our work on the DUC2004 evaluation data and with human judges. Overall, our system signiﬁcantly outperforms all systems that participated in DUC2004, according to the ROUGE-L metric, and is preferred by human subjects.
Additional file 1 of Unequal availability of workplace policy for prevention of coronavirus disease 2019 across occupations and its relationship with personal protection behaviours: a cross-sectional survey
Creators: name: Wang, Kailu
name: Wong, Eliza Lai Yi
name: Ho, Kin Fai
name: Cheung, Annie Wai Ling
name: Chan, Emily Ying Yang
name: Wong, Samuel Yeung Shan
name: Yeoh, Eng Kiong
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1 Table S1. Association between availability of workplace policies and supply of PPE by occupations. Table S2. Association between availability of workplace policies and adequacy of workplace PPE storage by occupations. Table S3. Association between availability of workplace policies and information transparency on the infections occurred among co-workers and their family by occupations.
Global Behavior Of Finite Energy Solutions To The $d$-Dimensional Focusing Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation
Creators: name: Guevara, Cristi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study the global behavior of finite energy solutions to the $d$-dimensional focusing nonlinear Schrödinger equation (NLS), $i \partial_t u+Δu+ |u|^{p-1}u=0, $ with initial data $u_0\in H^1,\; x \in R^n$. The nonlinearity power $p$ and the dimension $d$ are such that the scaling index $s=\frac{d}2-\frac2{p-1}$ is between 0 and 1, thus, the NLS is mass-supercritical $(s>0)$ and energy-subcritical $(s<1).$ For solutions with $\ME[u_0]<1$ ($\ME[u_0]$ stands for an invariant and conserved quantity in terms of the mass and energy of $u_0$), a sharp threshold for scattering and blowup is given. Namely, if the renormalized gradient $\g_u$ of a solution $u$ to NLS is initially less than 1, i.e., $\g_u(0)<1,$ then the solution exists globally in time and scatters in $H^1$ (approaches some linear Schrödinger evolution as $t\to\pm\infty$); if the renormalized gradient $\g_u(0)>1,$ then the solution exhibits a blowup behavior, that is, either a finite time blowup occurs, or there is a divergence of $H^1$ norm in infinite time. This work generalizes the results for the 3d cubic NLS obtained in a series of papers by Holmer-Roudenko and Duyckaerts-Holmer-Roudenko with the key ingredients, the concentration compactness and localized variance, developed in the context of the energy-critical NLS and Nonlinear Wave equations by Kenig and Merle.
description: 57 pages, 4 figures and updated references
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of American, Palestinian, and Swedish
Perception of Charismatic Speech: Powerpoint Poster
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Biadsy, Fadi
name: Rosenberg, Andrew
name: Carlson, Rolf
name: Strangert, Eva
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computer science
subject: Communication
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Perception of charisma, the ability to inﬂuence others by virtue of one’s personal qualities, appears to be inﬂuenced to some extent by cultural factors. We compare results of ﬁve studies of charisma speech in which American, Palestinian, and Swedish subjects rated Standard American English political speech and Americans and Palestinians rated Palestinian Arabic speech. We identify acoustic-prosodic and lexical features correlated with charisma ratings of both languages for native and non-native speakers and ﬁnd that 1) some acoustic-prosodic features correlated with charisma ratings appear similar across all ﬁve experiments; 2) other acoustic-prosodic and lexical features correlated with charisma appear speciﬁc to the language rated, whatever the native language of the rater; and 3) still other acoustic-prosodic cues appear speciﬁc to both rater native language and to language rated. We also ﬁnd that, while the absolute ratings non-native raters assign tend to be lower than those of native speakers, the ratings themselves are strongly correlated.
Epitaph of Aurelia Agoraste Hilaritas
Creators: name: Prag, Jonathan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Sicily
subject: epigraphy
subject: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300138808
subject: https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462492

description: TEI EpiDoc record
Emergy-based sustainability rating system for buildings : case study of Canada
Creators: name: Hossaini Fard, Navid
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2012

description: The building and construction industry significantly contributes to the global environmental problems as it accounts for 30-40% of energy and material consumption of the society and around 30% of the global greenhouse gas emissions. Considering growing population, resource scarcity and environmental effects of the building industry on Earth, there is an urgent need for paradigm shift toward sustainability and green buildings. However, studies show that 28-35% of the current LEED-certified green buildings actually use more energy than conventional buildings. This thesis addresses weaknesses in current green building rating systems in North America, by implementing the “emergy” methodology. Emergy measure provides a holistic method to estimate the true value of environmental resources and services that was previously used to make a product/service. In this thesis, emergy methodology is used to assess the environmental and associated socioeconomic impacts of construction projects over lifecycle of buildings, including: resource extraction, manufacturing, transportation, construction, operation and maintenance, demolition and end of life scenarios (recycle, reuse and landfill). The main objective of this research is to develop an emergy-based sustainability rating system for buildings in Canada, named the “Em-Green sustainability rating system”. This sustainability evaluation system is a user-friendly framework for building and construction industry in Canada that covers the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) of sustainability (i.e.: environmental, social, and economical). The Em-Green sustainability fills the gap of a comprehensive building rating system that covers complete life-cycle of buildings (Cradle-to-Cradle/Grave approach) based on local practices in Canada. The framework developed for Em-green sustainability rating system can be adopted for other nations and can be expanded to develop a global sustainability measure for the built environment.
Comparing American and Palestinian Perceptions of Charisma Using
Acoustic-Prosodic and Lexical Analysis: Presentation Powerpoint Poster
Creators: name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Biadsy, Fadi
name: Rosenberg, Andrew
name: Dakka, Wisam
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computer science
subject: Communication
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Charisma, the ability to lead by virtue of personality alone, is difﬁcult to deﬁne but relatively easy to identify. However, cultural factors clearly affect perceptions of charisma. In this paper we compare results from parallel perception studies investigating charismatic speech in Palestinian Arabic and American English. We examine acoustic/prosodic and lexical correlates of charisma ratings to determine how the two cultures differ with respect to their views of charismatic speech.
Linear relaxation to planar Travelling Waves in Inertial Confinement Fusion
Creators: name: Monsaingeon, Léonard
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study linear stability of planar travelling waves for a scalar reaction-diffusion equation with non-linear anisotropic diffusion. The mathematical model is derived from the full thermo-hydrodynamical model describing the process of Inertial Confinement Fusion. We show that solutions of the Cauchy problem with physically relevant initial data become planar exponentially fast with rate $s(\eps',k)>0$, where $\eps'=\frac{T_{min}}{T_{max}}\ll 1$ is a small temperature ratio and $k\gg 1$ the transversal wrinkling wavenumber of perturbations. We rigorously recover in some particular limit $(\eps',k)\rightarrow (0,+\infty)$ a dispersion relation $s(\eps',k)\sim γ_0 k^α$ previously computed heuristically and numerically in some physical models of Inertial Confinement Fusion.
The Psychological Wellbeing of Female Physique Athletes
Creators: name: Ceslikauskaite, Kristina
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Female physique athletes (FPAs) are women who engage in competitive bodybuilding. The sport focuses on the development and presentation of a muscular, lean and symmetrical physique, achieved through resistance and aerobic training, and energy intake manipulation. FPAs may be at a higher risk for psychological distress due to being female and engaging in a competitive, leanness-and appearance-focussed sport. The competitive season consists of three main phases (i.e., off-season, pre-competition and post-competition), each of which may have specific vulnerability factors (e.g., low energy availability). Nonetheless, FPAs’ psychological wellbeing has been under researched. A systematic literature review of 19 studies (Chapter One) highlighted that research of FPAs’ psychological characteristics is limited and inconsistent. Small meta-analyses revealed that FPAs may have higher levels of exercise dependence than recreational weightlifters and may have elevated risk of eating disorders (45% were at risk of developing eating disorders, and 19% had history of an eating disorder). Data were reported on personality factors, mood, exercise dependence and body image/eating behaviour; however, methodological variability prevented any confident conclusions. More consideration of conceptual underpinnings may help to explore FPAs’ vulnerability and resilience factors. A cross-sectional survey (Chapter Two) was completed by 368 participants (127 FPAs, 118 recreational weightlifters and 123 general exercisers). Results indicated that FPAs were broadly comparable to comparison groups, but had elevated anxiety and low mood/wellbeing in comparison to published general population female norms. FPAs who are younger, using hormonal contraception and are in the post-competition phase may be at increased risk of psychological distress. Self-reassurance was a predictor of lower psychological distress, while self-criticism predicted higher levels of anxiety and lower mood/wellbeing. Interventions deploying self-compassion are worthy of study. Study limitations and future directions are discussed.
Student athletes: Academic library outreach and engagement strategies
Creators: name: Murphy, James E.
Publisher: name: Libraries and Cultural Resources
Year: 2020

description: Ontario Library Conference 2020
description: Student athletes can be a challenging group to connect to from the academic library. They are often on the road and have training demands on top of the typically busy student schedule. This poster will explore the hurdles and successes that the University of Calgary Libraries have had working with this important student group over the past few years.
Signaling pathways in legume seed development : evidence for a crosstalk between trehalose 6-phosphate and auxin ; [kumulative Dissertation]
Creators: name: Meitzel, Tobias
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Hülsenfrucht
subject: Samenentwicklung
subject: Signaltransduktion
subject: 575

description: Samen bestimmen die Fortpflanzungsfähigkeit von Pflanzen und sind für ihre Existenz lebenswichtig. Unabhängig von ihrer biologischen Bedeutung sind Ertrag und Qualität des Saatguts für die moderne Pflanzenzüchtung und die effiziente Lebensmittelproduktion von erheblichem Interesse. Die molekularen Mechanismen, die die Samengröße und die Akkumulation von Speicherverbindungen regulieren, sind jedoch immer noch nicht gut geklärt. Anhand verschiedener Leguminosenmodelle mit großen Samen wird nun gezeigt, dass sowohl die Samenfüllung als auch die Samengröße von der transkriptionellen Aktivierung der Auxinbiosynthese durch den Signalzuckertrehalose-6-phosphat (T6P) abhängen. Die Feststellung, dass T6P stromaufwärts von Auxin wirkt, ist ein herausragendes Beispiel dafür, wie ein metabolisches Signal die hormonelle Kontrolle einer integralen Entwicklungsphase in Pflanzen steuert.
description: Seeds determine the reproductive capacity of plants and are vital to their existence. Regardless of their biological importance, yield and quality of seeds are of significant interest for modern plant breeding and efficient food production. However, the molecular mechanisms regulating seed size and storage compound accumulation are still not well elucidated. Taking advantage of different large-seeded legume models, it is now shown that both seed filling and seed size are dependent on the transcriptional activation of auxin biosynthesis by the signaling sugar trehalose 6-phosphate (T6P). The finding that T6P acts upstream of auxin provides a salient example of how a metabolic signal governs the hormonal control of an integral developmental phase in plants.
The Effect of Contour Type and Epistemic Modality on the Assessment of Speaker Certainty: Presentation Powerpoint Slides
Creators: name: Gravano, Agustin
name: Benus, Stefan
name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: German, Elisa Sneed
name: Ward, Gregory
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Computer science
subject: Information technology
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: In an empirical study participants were asked to rate the perceived degree of certainty of utterances that contained either the modal would or main verb be (e.g. That would be me vs. That’s me), and which were also variously produced with one of three intonational contours (downstepped, declarative, and yes-no question). We found that both downstepped contour and epistemic would made a significant and independent contribution to the assessment of speaker certainty. That is, participants rated utterances with the downstepped contour as most certain, followed by those with the declarative contour, while the yes-no question contour was perceived as highly uncertain. Similarly, participants rated speakers' responses with epistemic would as significantly more certain than those without it.
Healthcare professionals experience of being subject to a complaint
Creators: name: Hogben, Naomi
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis seeks to examine how healthcare professionals experience being subject to a complaint. The frequency of complaints made against professionals within healthcare settings has been steadily increasing, however limited research has focused on how practitioners respond to complaint. This portfolio presents two papers; a meta-synthesis undertaken to systematically review existing qualitative literature on the experience of healthcare professionals subject to a complaint, eliciting 11 eligible papers for inclusion. Data were analysed utilising Reciprocal Transactional Analysis (Noblit & Hare, 1988) from which three themes emerged: ‘significant and aversive emotional impact’, ‘the need for support’ and ‘the legacy of the complaint’. The review highlighted the profound and pervasive impact of the complaint on healthcare professionals and highlighted a need for dedicated support to support the emotional distress and practical implications of the complaint. Furthermore, the review highlighted an overrepresentation of medical professions in the current literature and a lack of awareness of the impact of a complaint at different stages of healthcare professionals’ career. The second paper comprises qualitative exploration of the experience of early career clinical psychologists subject to a complaint whilst employed by the NHS. Ten participants were recruited via purposeful sampling to complete a semi-structured interview. The data was transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis (Braun & Clarke, 2012), revealing two themes. ‘System indifference’ encompassed the callousness of organisational systems as participants reported shock, a sense of being attacked, and unpreparedness during the complaints process. ‘I am a good clinician?’ revealed the powerful and enduring emotional impact of the complaint which left participants reporting profound self-doubt and fear of reputational damage. The study highlighted the significant difficulties associated with receiving a complaint early in career, the adverse impact on a fragile developing professional identity, and the need for structured support and emotional containment.
The VISTA Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) Survey
Creators: name: Jarvis, Matt J.
name: Bonfield, D. G.
name: Bruce, V. A.
name: Geach, J. E.
name: McAlpine, K.
name: McLure, R. J.
name: Gonzalez-Solares, E.
name: Irwin, M.
name: Lewis, J.
name: Yoldas, A. Kupcu
name: Andreon, S.
name: Cross, N. J. G.
name: Emerson, J. P.
name: Dalton, G.
name: Dunlop, J. S.
name: Hodgkin, S. T.
name: Fevre, O. Le
name: Karouzos, M.
name: Meisenheimer, K.
name: Oliver, S.
name: Rawlings, S.
name: Simpson, C.
name: Smail, I.
name: Smith, D. J. B.
name: Sullivan, M.
name: Sutherland, W.
name: White, S. V.
name: Zwart, J. T. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we describe the first data release of the the Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA) Deep Extragalactic Observations (VIDEO) survey. VIDEO is a ~12degree^2 survey in the near-infrared Z,Y,J,H and K_s bands, specifically designed to enable the evolution of galaxies and large structures to be traced as a function of both epoch and environment from the present day out to z=4, and active galactic nuclei (AGN) and the most massive galaxies up to and into the epoch of reionization. With its depth and area, VIDEO will be able to fully explore the period in the Universe where AGN and starburst activity were at their peak and the first galaxy clusters were beginning to virialize. VIDEO therefore offers a unique data set with which to investigate the interplay between AGN, starbursts and environment, and the role of feedback at a time when it was potentially most crucial. We provide data over the VIDEO-XMM3 tile, which also covers the Canada-France-Hawaii-Telescope Legacy Survey Deep-1 field (CFHTLS-D1). The released VIDEO data reach a 5-sigma AB-magnitude depth of Z=25.7, Y=24.5, J=24.4, H=24.1 and K_s=23.8 in 2 arcsec diameter apertures (the full depth of Y=24.6 will be reached within the full integration time in future releases). The data are compared to previous surveys over this field and we find good astrometric agreement with the Two-Micron All Sky Survey, and source counts in agreement with the recently released UltraVISTA survey data. The addition of the VIDEO data to the CFHTLS-D1 optical data increases the accuracy of photometric redshifts and significantly reduces the fraction of catastrophic outliers over the redshift range 0
description: 16 Pages, 12 figure and 5 tables, MNRAS in press. Figures have been degraded due to size constraints, Figure 10 also updated
Spoken Arabic Dialect Identiﬁcation Using Phonotactic Modeling
Creators: name: Biadsy, Fadi
name: Hirschberg, Julia Bell
name: Habash, Nizar Y.
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2009
Subjects: Computer science

description: The Arabic language is a collection of multiple variants, among which Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) has a special status as the formal written standard language of the media, culture and education across
the Arab world. The other variants are informal spoken dialects that are the media of communication for daily life. Arabic dialects differ substantially from MSA and each other in terms of phonology, morphology, lexical choice and syntax. In this paper, we describe a system that automatically identifies the Arabic dialect (Gulf,
Iraqi, Levantine, Egyptian and MSA) of a speaker given a sample of his/her speech. The phonotactic approach we use proves to be effective in identifying these dialects with considerable overall accuracy — 81.60% using 30s test utterances.
Incentive effects in ecological fiscal transfers: evidence based foundations for policy advice
Creators: name: Droste, Nils
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften 330 Wirtschaft 330 Wirtschaft

description: Diese Dissertation untersucht die Anreizwirkungen ökologischer Finanzausgleichsysteme auf die Ausweisung von Schutzgebieten. Mittels eines mikroökonomischen Modells werden die Potenziale eines ökologischen Finanzausgleiches für solch eine fiskalische Anreizsetzung im Naturschutz aufgezeigt und daraus überprüfbare Hypothesen generiert. Entsprechende empirische Nachweise einer Anreizwirkung in den existierenden ökologischen Finanzausgleichsystemen in Brasilen und Portugal werden durch Pandeldatenregressionen und Zeitreihenanalysen erbracht. Darüber hinaus werden drei konkrete Vorschläge für mögliche Anpassungen des Instrumentes auf föderaler, supranationaler und globaler Ebene durch quantitative Simulationen und unter Betrachtung der spezifischen institutionellen Rahmenbedingungen entwickelt. Damit erbringt die Dissertation eine evidenzbasierte Grundlage für Politikempfehlungen hinsichtlich der Gestaltung ökologischer Finanzausgleichsysteme.
description: This dissertation analyses incentive effects in ecological fiscal transfers for the designation of protected areas. The potential of ecological fiscal transfers to set such fiscal incentives for nature conservation is displayed through a microeconomic model that generates testable hypothesis. Corresponding empirical evidence of an incentive effect is provided by panel data regressions and time series analyses of existing ecological fiscal transfer systems in Brazil and Portugal. Moreover, three tangible proposals for potential adaptations of the instrument to federal, supra-national, and global levels are developed through quantitative simulations that take the specifics of the institutional frameworks into account. Thereby, this dissertation provides an evidence based foundation for policy advice for the design of ecological fiscal transfer systems.
Reducing vortex losses in superconducting microwave resonators with microsphere patterned antidot arrays
Creators: name: Bothner, D.
name: Clauss, C.
name: Koroknay, E.
name: Kemmler, M.
name: Gaber, T.
name: Jetter, M.
name: Scheffler, M.
name: Michler, P.
name: Dressel, M.
name: Koelle, D.
name: Kleiner, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally investigate the vortex induced energy losses in niobium coplanar waveguide resonators with and without quasihexagonal arrays of nanoholes (antidots), where large-area antidot patterns have been fabricated using self-assembling microsphere lithography. We perform transmission spectroscopy experiments around 6.25 and 12.5 GHz in magnetic field cooling and zero field cooling procedures with perpendicular magnetic fields up to B=27 mT at a temperature T=4.2 K. We find that the introduction of antidot arrays into resonators reduces vortex induced losses by more than one order of magnitude.
Laughlin spin liquid states on lattices obtained from conformal field theory
Creators: name: Nielsen, Anne E. B.
name: Cirac, J. Ignacio
name: Sierra, German
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a set of spin system wavefunctions that are very similar to lattice versions of the Laughlin states. The wavefunction are conformal blocks of conformal field theories, and for filling factor ν=1/2 we provide a parent Hamiltonian, which is valid for any even number of spins and is at the same time a 2D generalization of the Haldane-Shastry model. We also demonstrate that the Kalmeyer-Laughlin state is reproduced as a particular case of this model. Finally, we discuss various properties of the spin states and point out several analogies to known results for the Laughlin states.
description: 5+6 pages, 4 figures