cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
UV/Optical disk reverberation lags despite a faint X-ray corona in the AGN Mrk 335
Creators: name: Kara, Erin
name: Barth, Aaron J.
name: Cackett, Edward M.
name: Gelbord, Jonathan
name: Montano, John
name: Li, Yan-Rong
name: Santana, Lisabeth
name: Horne, Keith
name: Alston, William N.
name: Buisson, Douglas
name: Chelouche, Doron
name: Du, Pu
name: Fabian, Andrew C.
name: Fian, Carina
name: Gallo, Luigi
name: Goad, Michael R.
name: Grupe, Dirk
name: Buitrago, Diego H. Gonzalez
name: Santisteban, Juan V. Hernandez
name: Kaspi, Shai
name: Hu, Chen
name: Komossa, S.
name: Kriss, Gerard A.
name: Lewin, Collin
name: Lewis, Tiffany
name: Loewenstein, Michael
name: Lohfink, Anne
name: Masterson, Megan
name: McHardy, Ian M.
name: Mehdipour, Missagh
name: Miller, Jake
name: Panagiotou, Christos
name: Parker, Michael L.
name: Pinto, Ciro
name: Remillard, Ron
name: Reynolds, Christopher
name: Rogantini, Daniele
name: Wang, Jian-Min
name: Wang, Jingyi
name: Wilkins, Dan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first results from a 100-day Swift, NICER and ground-based X-ray/UV/optical reverberation mapping campaign of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Mrk 335, when it was in an unprecedented low X-ray flux state. Despite dramatic suppression of the X-ray variability, we still observe UV/optical lags as expected from disk reverberation. Moreover, the UV/optical lags are consistent with archival observations when the X-ray luminosity was >10 times higher. Interestingly, both low- and high-flux states reveal UV/optical lags that are 6-11 times longer than expected from a thin disk. These long lags are often interpreted as due to contamination from the broad line region, however the u band excess lag (containing the Balmer jump from the diffuse continuum) is less prevalent than in other AGN. The Swift campaign showed a low X-ray-to-optical correlation (similar to previous campaigns), but NICER and ground-based monitoring continued for another two weeks, during which the optical rose to the highest level of the campaign, followed ~10 days later by a sharp rise in X-rays. While the low X-ray countrate and relatively large systematic uncertainties in the NICER background make this measurement challenging, if the optical does lead X-rays in this flare, this indicates a departure from the zeroth-order reprocessing picture. If the optical flare is due to an increase in mass accretion rate, this occurs on much shorter than the viscous timescale. Alternatively, the optical could be responding to an intrinsic rise in X-rays that is initially hidden from our line-of-sight.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 15 pages, 8 figures, 3 tables
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titleType: Subtitle
title: Finansing of municipal solid waste management system
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Year: 2022
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waste management system
municipal solid waste
financing of waste management system

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description: The subject of the master thesis is: âFinancing of municipal solid waste management systemâ. The given work is devoted to analysis of finance model of waste management system in Russia. The object of the study is waste management system in Russia. The review of theoretical aspects of waste management system was carried out, their main components and characteristics were highlighted. The scientific works related to the research topic were analyzed, a set of factors necessary for the implementation of the study were chosen.It was given the analysis of waste management system in RussiaIt was developed the algorithm which helps to choose the project in case of waste management system.
Semi-Supervised Visual Tracking of Marine Animals using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
Creators: name: Cai, Levi
name: McGuire, Nathan E.
name: Hanlon, Roger
name: Mooney, T. Aran
name: Girdhar, Yogesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: In-situ visual observations of marine organisms is crucial to developing behavioural understandings and their relations to their surrounding ecosystem. Typically, these observations are collected via divers, tags, and remotely-operated or human-piloted vehicles. Recently, however, autonomous underwater vehicles equipped with cameras and embedded computers with GPU capabilities are being developed for a variety of applications, and in particular, can be used to supplement these existing data collection mechanisms where human operation or tags are more difficult. Existing approaches have focused on using fully-supervised tracking methods, but labelled data for many underwater species are severely lacking. Semi-supervised trackers may offer alternative tracking solutions because they require less data than fully-supervised counterparts. However, because there are not existing realistic underwater tracking datasets, the performance of semi-supervised tracking algorithms in the marine domain is not well understood. To better evaluate their performance and utility, in this paper we provide (1) a novel dataset specific to marine animals located at http://warp.whoi.edu/vmat/, (2) an evaluation of state-of-the-art semi-supervised algorithms in the context of underwater animal tracking, and (3) an evaluation of real-world performance through demonstrations using a semi-supervised algorithm on-board an autonomous underwater vehicle to track marine animals in the wild.
description: To appear in IJCV SI: Animal Tracking
Optimized Attenuated Interaction: Enabling Stochastic Bethe-Salpeter Spectra for Large Systems
Creators: name: Bradbury, Nadine C.
name: Allen, Tucker
name: Nguyen, Minh
name: Ibrahim, Khaled
name: Neuhauser, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We develop an improved stochastic formalism for the Bethe-Salpeter equation, based on an exact separation of the effective-interaction $W$ to two parts, $W=(W-v_W)+v_W$ where the latter is formally any translationally-invariant interaction $v_W(r-r')$. When optimizing the fit of $v_W$ exchange kernel to $W$, by using a stochastic sampling of $W$, the difference $W-v_W$ becomes quite small. Then, in the main BSE routine, this small difference is stochastically sampled. The number of stochastic samples needed for an accurate spectrum is then largely independent of system size. While the method is formally cubic in scaling, the scaling prefactor is small due to the constant number of stochastic orbitals needed for sampling $W$.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables
Widely Extended [OIII] 88 um Line Emission around the 30 Doradus Region Revealed with AKARI FIS-FTS
Creators: name: Kawada, Mitsunobu
name: Takahashi, Ai
name: Yasuda, Akiko
name: Kiriyama, Yuichi
name: Mori, Tatsuya
name: Mouri, Akio
name: Kaneda, Hidehiro
name: Okada, Yoko
name: Takahashi, Hidenori
name: Murakami, Noriko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the distribution map of the far-infrared [OIII] 88um line emission around the 30 Doradus (30 Dor) region in the Large Magellanic Cloud obtained with the Fourier Transform Spectrometer of the Far-Infrared Surveyor onboard AKARI. The map reveals that the [OIII] emission is widely distributed by more than 10' around the super star cluster R136, implying that the 30 Dor region is affluent with interstellar radiation field hard enough to ionize O^{2+}. The observed [OIII] line intensities are as high as (1-2) x 10^{-6} W m^{-2} sr^{-1} on the peripheral regions 4'-5' away from the center of 30 Dor, which requires gas densities of 60-100 cm^{-3}. However the observed size of the distribution of the [OIII] emission is too large to be explained by massive stars in the 30 Dor region enshrouded by clouds with the constant gas density of 10^2 cm^{-3}. Therefore the surrounding structure is likely to be highly clumpy. We also find a global correlation between the [OIII] and the far-infrared continuum emission, suggesting that the gas and dust are well mixed in the highly-ionized region where the dust survives in clumpy dense clouds shielded from the energetic photons.
description: 17 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan (PASJ)
asevolution: a relativistic N-body implementation of the (a)symmetron
Creators: name: Christiansen, Øyvind
name: Hassani, Farbod
name: Jalilvand, Mona
name: Mota, David F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present asevolution, a cosmological N-body code developed based on gevolution, which consistently solves for the (a)symmetron scalar field and metric potentials within the weak-field approximation. In asevolution, the scalar field is dynamic and can form non-linear structures. A cubic term is added in the symmetron potential to make the symmetry-broken vacuum expectation values different, which is motivated by observational tensions in the late-time universe. To study the effects of the scalar field dynamics, we also implement a constraint solver making use of the quasi-static approximation, and provide options for evaluating the background evolution, including using the full energy density averaged over the simulation box within the Friedmann equation. The asevolution code is validated by comparison with the Newtonian N-body code ISIS that makes use of the quasi-static approximation. There is found a very small effect of including relativistic and weak-field corrections in our small test simulations; it is seen that for small masses, the field is dynamic and can not be accurately solved for using the quasi-static approximation; and we observe the formation of unstable domain walls and demonstrate a useful way to identify them within the code. A first consideration indicates that the domain walls are more unstable in the asymmetron scenario.
description: 26 pages, 13 figures
Positronium Portal into Hidden Sector: A new Experiment to Search for Mirror Dark Matter
Creators: name: Crivelli, Paolo
name: Belov, Alexander
name: Gendotti, Ulisse
name: Gninenko, Sergei
name: Rubbia, Andre
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The understanding of the origin of dark matter has great importance for cosmology and particle physics. Several interesting extensions of the standard model dealing with solution of this problem motivate the concept of hidden sectors consisting of SU(3)xSU(2)_LxU(1)_Y singlet fields. Among these models, the mirror matter model is certainly one of the most interesting. The model explains the origin of parity violation in weak interactions, it could also explain the baryon asymmetry of the Universe and provide a natural ground for the explanation of dark matter. The mirror matter could have a portal to our world through photon-mirror photon mixing (epsilon). This mixing would lead to orthopositronium (o-Ps) to mirror orthopositronium oscillations, the experimental signature of which is the apparently invisible decay of o-Ps. In this paper, we describe an experiment to search for the decay o-Ps -> invisible in vacuum by using a pulsed slow positron beam and a massive 4pi BGO crystal calorimeter. The developed high efficiency positron tagging system, the low calorimeter energy threshold and high hermiticity allow the expected sensitivity in mixing strength to be epsilon about 10^-9, which is more than one order of magnitude below the current Big Bang Nucleosynthesis limit and in a region of parameter space of great theoretical and phenomenological interest. The vacuum experiment with such sensitivity is particularly timely in light of the recent DAMA/LIBRA observations of the annual modulation signal consistent with a mirror type dark matter interpretation.
description: 40 pages, 29 Figures 2 Tables v2: Ref. added, Fig. 29 and some text added to explain idea for backscattering e+ background suppression, corrected typos v3: minor corrections: Eq 2.1 corrected (6 lines-> 5 lines), Eq.2.17: two extra "-" signs removed
Post-anesthetic recovery room registered nurses's experiences with technology assisted respiratory assessment during phase 1 recovery : an interpretive descriptive study
Creators: name: Shannon, Helen Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2019

description: Background: Technology is prominent in the recovery room, but little is known about nurses’ use of technology in performing respiratory assessments, during the critical phase 1 recovery period. The purpose of this study was to investigate PACU nurses’ experiences of technology assisted respiratory assessment during phase 1 recovery. Methods: Interpretive Description was used to understand nurses’ experiences. Nine PACU nurses were recruited from three mid-sized hospitals within the same health authority, in a Western Canadian province. Nurse participants were interviewed using a semi-structured interview guide. Findings: Four themes were constructed from the data. Theme one described nurses’ confidence and trust in a visual sensory respiratory assessment process. Theme two described PACU nurses’ approach to technology. Theme three highlighted the contextual influences, which sustained the visual sensory approach to respiratory assessment. Theme four described PACU nurses’ descriptions of the technical challenges recognising deteriorating phase 1 recovery respiratory function. Discussion: PACU nurses practiced their intuitive sensory assessments with a projected strong sense of expert practice and minimal dependence on technology. However, a reliance on a sensory assessment and available technology did not always provide timely measures to detect abnormal respiratory function. PACU nurses expressed frustrations with current PACU technology and described some experiences with delayed identification of hypoventilation and hypoxia. Workplace cultural practices sustained PACU nurses’ respiratory assessment practices, the following factors have been highlighted in the literature to affect work place culture and patient outcomes; current and historical literature on perceptions of expert practice, implications of rationalized behaviors with technology use and alarm suppression, the influence of the wider culture of practice on practice performance, and the physiological challenges of assessing respiratory function on emergence from anesthesia. The case for and against more advanced respiratory monitoring technology is discussed. Marshall McLuhan’s tetrad of media effects tool was applied to the findings and found to have relevance and applicability in explaining the contextual elements in the data and bringing together the interpreted findings, under the umbrella of technological effects upon the PACU.
A red giant orbiting a black hole
Creators: name: El-Badry, Kareem
name: Rix, Hans-Walter
name: Cendes, Yvette
name: Rodriguez, Antonio C.
name: Conroy, Charlie
name: Quataert, Eliot
name: Hawkins, Keith
name: Zari, Eleonora
name: Hobson, Melissa
name: Breivik, Katelyn
name: Rau, Arne
name: Berger, Edo
name: Shahaf, Sahar
name: Seeburger, Rhys
name: Burdge, Kevin B.
name: Latham, David W.
name: Buchhave, Lars A.
name: Bieryla, Allyson
name: Bashi, Dolev
name: Mazeh, Tsevi
name: Faigler, Simchon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report spectroscopic and photometric follow-up of a dormant black hole (BH) candidate from Gaia DR3. The system, which we call Gaia BH2, contains a $\sim 1M_{\odot}$ red giant and a dark companion with mass $M_2 = 8.9\pm 0.3\,M_{\odot}$ that is very likely a BH. The orbital period, $P_{\rm orb} = 1277$ days, is much longer than that of any previously studied BH binary. Our radial velocity (RV) follow-up over a 7-month period spans more than 90% of the orbit's dynamic range in RV and is in excellent agreement with predictions of the Gaia solution. UV imaging and high-resolution optical spectra rule out all plausible luminous companions that could explain the orbit. The star is a bright ($G=12.3$), slightly metal-poor ($\rm [Fe/H]=-0.22$) low-luminosity giant ($T_{\rm eff}=4600\,\rm K$; $R = 7.8\,R_{\odot}$; $\log\left[g/\left({\rm cm\,s^{-2}}\right)\right] = 2.6$). The binary's orbit is moderately eccentric ($e=0.52$). The giant is strongly enhanced in $α-$elements, with $\rm [α/Fe] = +0.26$, but the system's Galactocentric orbit is typical of the thin disk. We obtained X-ray and radio nondetections of the source near periastron, which support BH accretion models in which the net accretion rate at the horizon is much lower than the Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton rate. At a distance of 1.16 kpc, Gaia BH2 is the second-nearest known BH, after Gaia BH1. Its orbit -- like that of Gaia BH1 -- seems too wide to have formed through common envelope evolution. Gaia BH1 and BH2 have orbital periods at opposite edges of the Gaia DR3 sensitivity curve, perhaps hinting at a bimodal intrinsic period distribution for wide BH binaries. Dormant BH binaries like Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2 likely significantly outnumber their close, X-ray bright cousins, but their formation pathways remain uncertain.
description: Accepted to MNRAS
Practical recommendations for implementing a Bayesian adaptive phase I design during a pandemic.
Creators: name: Ewings, Sean
name: Saunders, Geoff
name: Jaki, Thomas
name: Mozgunov, Pavel
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2022
Subjects: Research
Bayesian
Phase I
Adaptive design
Dose escalation

description: BACKGROUND: Modern designs for dose-finding studies (e.g., model-based designs such as continual reassessment method) have been shown to substantially improve the ability to determine a suitable dose for efficacy testing when compared to traditional designs such as the 3 + 3 design. However, implementing such designs requires time and specialist knowledge. METHODS: We present a practical approach to developing a model-based design to help support uptake of these methods; in particular, we lay out how to derive the necessary parameters and who should input, and when, to these decisions. Designing a model-based, dose-finding trial is demonstrated using a treatment within the AGILE platform trial, a phase I/II adaptive design for novel COVID-19 treatments. RESULTS: We present discussion of the practical delivery of AGILE, covering what information was found to support principled decision making by the Safety Review Committee, and what could be contained within a statistical analysis plan. We also discuss additional challenges we encountered in the study and discuss more generally what (unplanned) adaptations may be acceptable (or not) in studies using model-based designs. CONCLUSIONS: This example demonstrates both how to design and deliver an adaptive dose-finding trial in order to support uptake of these methods.
Recovery of steady rotational wave profiles from pressure measurements at the bed
Creators: name: Clamond, Didier
name: Labarbe, Joris
name: Henry, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive equations relating the pressure at a flat seabed and the free-surface profile for steady gravity waves with constant vorticity. The resulting set of nonlinear equations enables the recovery of the free surface from pressure measurements at the bed. Furthermore, the flow vorticity is determined solely from the bottom pressure as part of the recovery method. This approach is applicable even in the presence of stagnation points and its efficiency is illustrated via numerical examples.
Supersymmetry Breaking, Moduli Stabilization and Hidden U(1) Breaking in M-Theory
Creators: name: Acharya, Bobby Samir
name: Torabian, Mahdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate and explore the moduli potential for M-Theory compactified on G_2-manifolds in which the superpotential is dominated by a single membrane instanton term plus one from an asymptotically free hidden sector gauge interaction. We show that all moduli can be stabilized and that hidden sector gauge symmetries can be Higgsed at a high scale. We then compute the spectrum of superpartner masses at the GUT scale and evolve it to the electroweak scale. We find a spectrum which is very similar to the G_2-MSSM with light gauginos - accessible at the LHC - and a neutral wino dark matter candidate.
description: 25 pages, 15 figures
THE EFFECT OF PARENTING STYLES ON ASSERTIVENESS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT OF THE CASE IN TRAINEES IN ARBA MINCH COLLEGE OF TEACHERS EDUCATION
Creators: name: Temesgen Debalke
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of parenting style on assertiveness and
academic achievement of trainees of Arba Minch College of Teachers education. Respondents
were all regular students of the college and in number 165 students (56 female and 109 male
students) that selected from this college. Subjects filled two types of questionnaire including
assertiveness scale and parenting style questionnaires. One way ANOVA and two ways ANOVA
were used for data analysis with SPSS software. The results showed parenting style affects
academic  achievement  and  assertiveness  of  students.  Moreover,  students  grew  under
authoritative parenting style are significantly better in assertiveness than other types parenting
styles. Similarly, authoritative parenting style has a significant effect on academic achievement
(CGPA) of trainees. The study also revealed that sex did not affect students’ assertiveness skill.
On the contrary, sex significantly affects the trainees’ academic achievement.  The interaction
effect of parenting style and sex was not significantly affects assertiveness of trainees. The study
suggested  that  there  is  a  need  to  create  awareness  among  families  on  the  importance  of
authoritative parenting style in increasing students’ assertiveness and academic achievement. In
addition,  the  study  suggested  that  the  college  should empower  students’  especially  female
students to be more self- confident and assertive in order to increase their academic achievement.
IMPLEMENTATION OF INTEGRATED FUNCTIONAL ADULT  LITERACY PROGRAM IN KONSO WOREDA: ITS STRUCTURE, PARTICIPATION, IMPACT AND CHALLENGES
Creators: name: TAMIRU BURAYNA
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The purpose of this study was to examine the extent of  the  implementation of IFALP and to
investigate  the  establishments of  IFALP administration structure and its function, impacts of
the program, trainee participation in the program and challenges  facing the implementation
of the IFALP in Konso Woreda.  Both qualitative and quantitative methods  were employed.
Descriptive  survey  design  was  used.    Sources  of  data  were  four  Woreda  adult  education
board  (WAEB)  members, 12 education department staffs, 10 supervisors, 30 facilitators and
385  adult  learners.  Questionnaire,  interview,  document  analysis  and  observation  are  used
for data collections. Findings revealed that, WAEB was  established but not functional and
Woreda  IFALP  technical  committee  was  not  established.  Kebele  adult  education  boards
(KAEBs) and Kebele adult education technical committees were established and  functioning
at very low level.  Woreda Education Department function in the implementation of IFALP
was at a medium level. There were the slow progresses of adult’s participation in IFALP in
Konso Woreda and up to 2014/15 only 4589 adult learners graduated from the IFALP and
the implementation of IFALP showed social, economic and thinking abilities impact on adult
learners.    The study also disclosed the  weakness of IFALP administration structures, learner
home  related  factors,  learning  environment  related  factors,  shortage  of  teaching  learning
materials  and  facilitators’  related  factors  as  the  challenging  factors  facing  the
implementation of the program.  Based on the findings, it was concluded that; administration
structure  of  IFALP  were  not  strengthen,  participation  of  learners  in  IFALP  were  low,  the
program shows significant effects on adult learners and there were the factors challenging
the  implementation  of  the  program  in  Konso  Woreda.  Based  on  the  findings,  responsible
bodies were recommended to establish strong IFALP administration structure at Woreda and
build their capacity to improve the challenges that faced the implementation of IFALP in the
Woreda.
Singular sectors of the 1-layer Benney and dToda systems and their interrelations
Creators: name: Konopelchenko, B.
name: Alonso, L. Martinez
name: Medina, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Complete description of the singular sectors of the 1-layer Benney system (classical long wave equation) and dToda system is presented. Associated Euler-Poisson-Darboux equations E(1/2,1/2) and E(-1/2,-1/2) are the main tool in the analysis. A complete list of solutions of the 1-layer Benney system depending on two parameters and belonging to the singular sector is given. Relation between Euler-Poisson-Darboux equations E(a,a) with opposite sign of a is discussed.
description: 15 pages; Theor. Mathem. Physics, 2011
AN ASSESSMENT OF SCHOOL CLIMATE AMONG  PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS OF ARBA MINCH  TOWN
Creators: name: SILAS GODANA GIORGIS
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: School climate is the quality and  character of school life which is based on patterns of students’,
parents’, and school personnel’s experience of school life of which Ethiopian school’s records are
few. Cognizant of this gap this study has been undertaken.  The study examined school  climate of
public and private schools. The study was based on four  major elements of school climate  (safety,
teaching learning, interpersonal relationship, and school physical environment). In this study both
quantitative  and  qualitative  methods  were  used.  The  respondents  were  selected  using  both
probability  and  non-probability  sampling  techniques.  Questionnaire,  interview,  FGD  and
document  analyses  were  used  to  collect  data  and  the  quantitative  data  was  analyzed  using
descriptive statistics such as frequency, mean, percentage, and standard deviation. To  determine
the  relationship  between  elements  of  school  climate  and  type  of  schools,  T-test  was  utilized.
Furthermore,  data obtained from  interview, FGD, document analysis and open  ended questions
were  qualitatively  analyzed.  The  study  revealed  that  school  climate  was  found  to  be  significant
contributor of academic achievement to  private schools  than public schools.  It was concluded that
private  schools  are  better  in  creating  positive  school  climate  than  public  schools  and  school
climate and students’ academic achievement has positive correlation to one another; and sharing
best experiences one from the other, employing  different motivating strategies, treating students
with respect and others were recommended.
Metastable supersymmetry breaking in N=2 non-linear sigma-models
Creators: name: Jacot, Jean-Claude
name: Scrucca, Claudio A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a general study of the issue of metastability for supersymmetry-breaking vacua in theories with N=1 and N=2 global supersymmetry. This problem turns out to capture all the important qualitative features of the corresponding question in theories with local supersymmetry, where gravitational effects induce only quantitative modifications. Moreover, it allows to directly compare the conditions arising in the N=1 and N=2 cases, since the latter becomes particular case of the former in the rigid limit. Our strategy consists in a systematic investigation of the danger of instability coming from the sGoldstini scalars, whose masses are entirely due to supersymmetry breaking mass-splitting effects. We start by reviewing the metastability conditions arising in general N=1 non-linear sigma-models with chiral and vector multiplets. We then turn to the case of general N=2 non-linear sigma-models with hyper and vector multiplets. We first reproduce and clarify the known no-go theorems applying to theories with only Abelian vector multiplets and only hyper multiplets, and then derive new results applying to more general cases. To make the comparison with N=1 models as clear as possible, we rely on a formulation of N=2 models where one of the supersymmetries is manifestly realized in terms of ordinary superfields, whereas the other is realized through non-trivial transformations. We give a self-contained account of such a construction of N=2 theories in N=1 superspace, generalizing previous work on various aspects to reach a general and coordinate-covariant construction. We also present a direct computation of the supertrace of the mass matrix.
description: 50 pages, no figures; v2 minor corrections and addition of comments and references
High spin limits and non-abelian T-duality
Creators: name: Polychronakos, Alexios P.
name: Sfetsos, Konstadinos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The action of the non-abelian T-dual of the WZW model is related to an appropriate gauged WZW action via a limiting procedure. We extend this type of equivalence to general sigma-models with non-abelian isometries and their non-abelian T-duals, focusing on Principal Chiral models. We reinforce and refine this equivalence by arguing that the non-abelian T-duals are the effective backgrounds describing states of an appropriate parent theory corresponding to divergently large highest weight representations. The proof involves carrying out a subtle limiting procedure in the group representations and relating them to appropriate limits in the corresponding backgrounds. We illustrate the general method by providing several non-trivial examples.
description: 24 pages; V2: NPB version, minor clarification
title: Ð Ð°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐºÐ° Web-Ð¸Ð½ÑÐµÑÑÐµÐ¹ÑÐ° Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð²ÐµÑÐ¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¾ÑÐ° NuSMV
title: Ð²ÑÐ¿ÑÑÐºÐ½Ð°Ñ ÐºÐ²Ð°Ð»Ð¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð½Ð°Ñ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐ° Ð±Ð°ÐºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð²ÑÐ°
titleType: Subtitle
title: Web-interface development for the NuSMV verifier
Creators: name: Ð§ÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð²Ð°, ÐÑÐ¸Ð½Ð°
Publisher: name: Ð¡Ð°Ð½ÐºÑ-ÐÐµÑÐµÑÐ±ÑÑÐ³ÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐ½Ð¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ð¹ ÑÐ½Ð¸Ð²ÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑ ÐÐµÑÑÐ° ÐÐµÐ»Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾
Year: 2021
Subjects: ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð°Ñ Ð²ÐµÑÐ¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¸Ñ
model checking
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django
python
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react
formal verification
nusmv verifier
web-interface
finite-state machine
graphical interface

description: Ð Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð½Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐµ Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¸ÑÑÑ ÑÐ°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð¾ÑÐºÐ° web-Ð¸Ð½ÑÐµÑÑÐµÐ¹ÑÐ° Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð²ÐµÑÐ¸ÑÐ¸ÐºÐ°ÑÐ¾ÑÐ° NuSMV Ñ Ð²Ð¾Ð·Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÑÑ Ð³ÑÐ°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð·Ð°Ð´Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð¾Ð¿Ð¸ÑÐ°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»Ð¸, ÐµÐµ Ð¾ÑÐ¾Ð±ÑÐ°Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ Ð¸ Ð²Ð¸Ð·ÑÐ°Ð»Ð¸Ð·Ð°ÑÐ¸Ð¸ ÐºÐ¾Ð½ÑÑÐ¿ÑÐ¸Ð¼ÐµÑÐ¾Ð². ÐÐ»Ñ ÑÑÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ ÑÐ½Ð°ÑÐ°Ð»Ð° Ð²ÑÐ¿Ð¾Ð»Ð½ÑÐµÑÑÑ Ð¾Ð±Ð·Ð¾Ñ Ð¸ Ð°Ð½Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ð· ÑÑÑÐµÑÑÐ²ÑÑÑÐ¸Ñ Ð³ÑÐ°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¸Ñ Ð¸Ð½ÑÐµÑÑÐµÐ¹ÑÐ¾Ð² Ð´Ð»Ñ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼ Model Checking, ÑÐ¾ÑÐ¼Ð¸ÑÑÑÑÑÑ ÑÑÐµÐ±Ð¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ñ Ð´Ð»Ñ ÑÐ°Ð·ÑÐ°Ð±Ð°ÑÑÐ²Ð°ÐµÐ¼Ð¾Ð¹ ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ñ. Ð ÐºÐ°ÑÐµÑÑÐ²Ðµ Ð¿ÑÐ°ÐºÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð¹ ÑÐ°ÑÑÐ¸ ÑÐµÐ°Ð»Ð¸Ð·ÑÐµÑÑÑ Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ðµ Ñ ÐºÐ»Ð¸ÐµÐ½Ñ-ÑÐµÑÐ²ÐµÑÐ½Ð¾Ð¹ Ð°ÑÑÐ¸ÑÐµÐºÑÑÑÐ¾Ð¹, Ð¿ÑÐµÐ´Ð¾ÑÑÐ°Ð²Ð»ÑÑÑÐµÐµ Ð¿Ð¾Ð»ÑÐ·Ð¾Ð²Ð°ÑÐµÐ»Ñ Ð²Ð¾Ð·Ð¼Ð¾Ð¶Ð½Ð¾ÑÑÑ Ð³ÑÐ°ÑÐ¸ÑÐµÑÐºÐ¾Ð³Ð¾ Ð²Ð·Ð°Ð¸Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ¹ÑÑÐ²Ð¸Ñ Ñ Ð²ÐµÑÐ¸ÑÐ¸ÑÐ¸ÑÑÐµÐ¼Ð¾Ð¹ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÐµÐ»ÑÑ, Ð¿ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð¾Ð´Ð¸ÑÑÑ ÑÑÐ½ÐºÑÐ¸Ð¾Ð½Ð°Ð»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ðµ Ð¸ Ð¼Ð¾Ð´ÑÐ»ÑÐ½Ð¾Ðµ ÑÐµÑÑÐ¸ÑÐ¾Ð²Ð°Ð½Ð¸Ðµ Ð¾ÑÐ½Ð¾Ð²Ð½ÑÑ ÐºÐ¾Ð¼Ð¿Ð¾Ð½ÐµÐ½ÑÐ¾Ð² Ð¿ÑÐ¸Ð»Ð¾Ð¶ÐµÐ½Ð¸Ñ.
description: This document describes the web-interface development for the NuSMV verifier with the possibility of graphic creation and display the description of the model, also with the possibility of visualization counterexamples. For this, there are presented review and comparative analysis of existing graphical representations for Model Checking systems, and then formation requirements for the developed system. As a practical part, it describes the implementation of application with a client-server architecture allows user possibility of graphical interaction with a verifiable model, also there are presented functional and module testing of main app components.
PROVISION OF PRIMARY EDUCATION FOR PASTORALIST  CHILDREN IN NYANGATOM WOREDA: CHALLENGES AND  ALTERNATIVES
Creators: name: MOY TOPO MURALE (M.T.M)
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Provision  of  quality  and  equitable  primary  education  is  crucial  to  all  societies,  including  the
disadvantaged  people  living  in  developing  countries.  Such  education  fills  not  only  socioeconomic  but  also  political  gaps,  which,  in  turn,  fosters  local,  regional  and  national
development and integrity. The objectives of the study  was to identify the major school related
factors, socio-cultural and socio-economic factors that hinder participation and suggest possible
strategies  that  need  to  address  the  educational  marginalization  of  pastoral  children  in
Nyangatom Woreda. To achieve this, a descriptive research was  used. The study was based on
data gathered from three schools;  Kangaten, Kibish and Shunkura. The sources of data for the
study  were  120  students,  9  teachers,  3  supervisors,  2  education  officers  and  18  pastoral
community representatives. Probability and non probability sampling techniques  were employed.
The methods used for data collection were questionnaires, interview, FGD and document review.
The  data  obtained  from  questionnaires  were  analyzed  using  statistical  tools  like  frequency,
percentage,  mean  and  one  way  ANOVA.  The  quantitative  data  was  organized  and  feed  in  to
SPSS 20.0  version software and qualitative data were analyzed by  narration. The finding of this
study revealed that, primary education participation of pastoralist children was characterized by
very  low  enrollment,  male-biased,  high  dropout  rate  and  cultural  biased  factors.  This  study
found that most of the pastoralist communities were uneducated and illiterate. Among the factors
found to be causes for low school participation of pastoralist children were  socio-cultural, socioeconomic  and  school  related  factors.  This  study  also  explored  the  educational  alternatives  to
promote  primary  education  for  pastoralist  children.  In  conclusion,  socio-cultural,  socioeconomic  and  school  related  factors  affect  the  primary  education  participation  of  pastoralist
children.  In  order  to  alleviate  these  problems,  the  concerned  governmental  and  NGOs  should
work  hard  to  create  awareness  about  the  importance  of  education  for  pastoralist  children  to
eliminate the cultural influences against children education through different mechanisms such
as train the communities, meeting, workshops, advice with their elders and educated pastoralists
and giving prize to those who send their children to school.
A Proximity based Retransmission Scheme for Power Line Ad-hoc LAN
Creators: name: Singha, Chitta Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2010
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Power line as an alternative for data transmission is being explored, and also being used to a certain extent. But from the data transfer point of view, power line, as a channel is highly dynamic and hence not quite suitable. To convert the office or home wiring system to a Local Area Network (LAN), adaptive changes are to be made to the existing protocols. In this paper, a slotted transmission scheme is suggested, in which usable timeslots are found out by physically sensing the media. Common usable timeslots for the sender-receiver pair are used for communication. But these will not ensure safe packet delivery since packets may be corrupted on the way during propagation from sender to receiver. Therefore, we also suggest a proximity based retransmission scheme where each machine in the LAN, buffers good packet and machines close to the receiver retransmit on receiving a NACK.
description: Already published in IJDPS
Deliverable D6.2. Project Website_LICROX_Grant Agreement No.951843
Creators: name: López, Laura
name: Larsen, Lucas
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: deliverable, website, dissemination, communication, project

description: This document, D6.2 Project Website, is a deliverable of the LICROX Project, which is funded by the European Union’s H2020 Programme under Grant Agreement No.951843. The document describes the motivation behind the concept of the website and the objectives as a key tool for dissemination and communication actions. The document provides a description of the content of the public site, defining also the social media tools used.
Status of the High Field Cable Test Facility at Fermilab
Creators: name: Velev, G. V.
name: Arbelaez, D.
name: Arcola, C.
name: Bruce, R.
name: Kashikhin, V.
name: Koshelev, S.
name: Makulski, A.
name: Marinozzi, V.
name: Nikolic, V.
name: Orris, D.
name: Prestemon, S.
name: Sabbi, G.
name: Tope, T.
name: Yuan, X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) are building a new High Field Vertical Magnet Test Facility (HFVMTF) for testing superconducting cables in high magnetic field. The background magnetic field of 15 T in the HFVMTF will be produced by a magnet provided by LBNL. The HFVMTF is jointly funded by the US DOE Offices of Science, High Energy Physics (HEP), and Fusion Energy Sciences (FES), and will serve as a superconducting cable test facility in high magnetic fields and a wide range of temperatures for HEP and FES communities. This facility will also be used to test high-field superconducting magnet models and demonstrators, including hybrid magnets, produced by the US Magnet Development Program (MDP). The paper describes the status of the facility, including construction, cryostat designs, top and lambda plates, and systems for powering, and quench protection and monitoring.
AN ASSESSMENT OF THE FACTORS AFFECTING  STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC MOTIVATION: THE CASE OF  BURJI WOREDA PRIMARY SCHOOLS
Creators: name: MENTA HARME MARE
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: The main purpose of this study was to examine factors affecting students’ academic motivation
in BurjiWoreda primary schools. To this end, a descriptive- survey research design with mixed
methodwas employed.A  total  of  283 sample  respondents  were  used  as  primary  source  of
data.For  this, both  probability  and  non-probability  sampling  techniques  were  used.In  this
study  questionnaire,  interview  and  FGD  were  used.  Questionnaire having  open  and  closedended questions were prepared by the researcher and used to collect data from teachers and
students separately. Likert scale questionnaires having five alternatives were adapted and its
reliability in the study area was checked bypilot test. Interview was used for education office
leader and professionals, school principals and PTA members and FGD was conducted in all
schools with  students.After  collecting  data,  quantitative  data was analyzed by using SPSS
version-20  to  determine  frequency,  percentage,  mean,  t-test  andPearson correlation and
qualitative data were interpreted and narrated. The data analysis led to the following major
findings: the  most factors  affecting  students’  academic  motivation  in  the  area  are:  home
environment,  school  environment,  teacher  and  peer  related  factors.Concerning  gender
difference,  female  students  are  more  demotivated  than  their  male  counterparts.  Regarding
effect of students’ lack of academic motivation on teachers’ classroom management strategy, it
highly challenges the effectiveness of teachers’ teaching-learning activity and leads teachers to
ineffective implementation  of  annual,  semester  and  daily  lesson plans. The study  concluded
that  the  findings  justified  factors  affecting  students’  academic  motivation
andstrengtheningschool- community relationship, providingtraining opportunity for uncertified
teachers,  collaborative  working  among  the  school  stake  holders  and  others  were
recommended.
Vulnerable road-user deaths in Brazil: a Bayesian hierarchical model for spatial-temporal analysis
Creators: name: Batomen, Brice
name: Hyacinth Irving
name: Carabali, Mabel
name: Marilia Sá Carvalho
name: Ruggiero, Erica Di
name: Brown, Patrick
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer

description: Reducing the road traffic injuries burden is relevant to many sustainable development goals (SDG), in particular SDG3 – to establish good health and well-being. To describe the spatial-temporal trends and identify hotspot regions for fatal road traffic injuries, a Bayesian hierarchical Poisson model was used to analyze data on vulnerable road users (bicyclist, motorcyclist and pedestrians) in Brazil from 1999 to 2016. During the study period, mortality rates for bicyclists remained almost unchanged (0.6 per 100,000 people) but rose dramatically for motorcyclists (from 1.0 in 1999 to 6.0 per 100,000 people in 2016) and decreased for pedestrians (from 6.3 to 3.0 per 100,000 people). Spatial analyses accounting for socio-economic factors showed that the central and northeastern microregions of Brazil are hotspot areas for fatal injuries among motorcyclists while the southern areas are for pedestrians.
ACADEMIC  CHALLENGES  OF  DEAF  STUDENTS  IN  INCLUSIVE  CLASS  AND  PERCEPTION  OF  THEIR  INCLUSION  IN  REGULAR  CLASSROOM  AT  LIGABA  PRIMARY  SCHOOL,  WOLIATA ZONE,  ETHIOPIA
Creators: name: DEGINESH DESALEGN HATIYE
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2016

description: Education provision to deaf students in inclusive classroom setting is being practiced in Ethiopia
as a policy direction to ensure education access right for all segments of the people. However,
the  deaf students  are  not  enjoying  their  educational  right  in inclusive class  like  that  of  their
hearing  counterparts.  Hence,  this  study assessed  the challenges  of  deaf  students  in inclusive
classes  and  the  students' perception of their inclusion in  regular  classes  of  Ligaba  Primary
School. It also compared the academic achievement of hearing and deaf students and examined
the status of special support services for deaf students in the school. Sixteen (16) deaf students,
thirty two (32) regular class teachers who are teaching in integrated class and 33 hearing students
participated  in  this  study. Eight  (8)  parents  and 3 school  principals  were  also  included  in  the
study. Questionnaire  for deaf  students  and teachers; interview  with  school  principals,  focus
group discussion with parents of deaf students, hearing students and deaf students; and outside
and inside classroom observation were used to generate data. The Focus group discussion with
deaf students was held using sign language translator. The result indicated that deaf students are
facing academic challenges of communication using sign language, difficulty of understanding
instructions of teachers, missing notes that teachers provide for hearing students, mistreatment
from hearing peers, negative attitude from teachers towards their potential, absence of resource
material center in the school and etc. The three semesters' average academic achievement of deaf
students  is  found  to  be  significantly  less  than  that  of  hearing counterparts  (p=  0.001). Deaf
students, teachers and school principals reported that insufficient support services were provided
to deaf students to benefit deaf students from inclusion. Majority of deaf students and teachers
disfavor integration of deaf students in regular class. The study findings suggest that, to enhance
the  academic  performance  and  achievement  of  deaf  students  and  to  benefit them from their
inclusion,  the  students  should  get  special  attention  and  support  by  all  concerned  bodies.
Furthermore,  in order  to  address the challenges they face  in  various  academic  areas  such  as
communication,  curriculum,  special  support  provision,  etc. specific  modifications  have  to  be
made to  the  curricula  and  other  instructional  methods  have  to  be  strengthened.