cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Youth Disillusionment at Ukraine's 20th Anniversary of Independence: A Slippery Slope of Sustained Ukrainian Democracy
Creators: name: Bruce, Lauren
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 39
subject: Education

description: Ukraine continues to struggle with the establishment of a strong democratic and civic society after 20 years of independence. Following the 2004 Orange Revolution, the country experienced a wave of Western European inspired changes. Recent developments in the past two years, however, show a paralysis in these pro-Western ideologies.Drawing from qualitative data collected in central Ukraine and current literature, this thesis examines how recent political developments and current education policy affect Ukrainian youth's national identity and understanding of democracy. Despite students' strong grasp of democratic principles, their democratic understandings are influenced by Marxist ideologies. They understand their role within a democratic society, yet participate at superficial levels with increased feelings of disenfranchisement and cynicism. The future of Ukraine is threatened by its lack of a strong civil society and ethnic unification, as well as recent political upheaval.
Why Are Americans Consuming Less Fluid Milk? A Look at Generational Differences in Intake Frequency
Creators: name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Dong, Diansheng
name: Carlson, Andrea
name: Stewart, Hayden
name: Dong, Diansheng
name: Carlson, Andrea
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: fluid milk
subject: fluid milk demand
subject: fluid milk products
subject: milk drinking
subject: dairy products
subject: intake frequency
subject: consumption frequency
subject: generational differences
subject: generational change
subject: cohort effects
subject: portion sizes
subject: demand decline
subject: purchase behavior
subject: consumer choice
subject: consumer habits
subject: childhood habits

description: Americans are drinking less fluid milk, on average. In this study, ERS researchers find that declining consumption since the 1970s reflects changes in the frequency of fluid milk intake, rather than changes in portions. USDA survey data collected between 1977 and 2008 reveal that Americans are less apt to drink fluid milk with their midday and night- time meals than in earlier years, reducing the total number of consumption occasions per day. Moreover, more recent generations of Americans show greater decreases in consumption frequency, holding constant other factors such as education and race. The majority of Americans born in the 1990s consume fluid milk less often than those born in the 1970s, who, in turn, consume it less often than those born in the 1950s. All other factors constant, as newer generations with reduced demand gradually replace older ones, the population’s average level of consumption of fluid milk may continue to decline.
Youth Disillusionment at Ukraine's 20th Anniversary of Independence: A Slippery Slope of Sustained Ukrainian Democracy
Creators: name: Bruce, Lauren
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: Ukraine continues to struggle with the establishment of a strong democratic and civic society after 20 years of independence. Following the 2004 Orange Revolution, the country experienced a wave of Western European inspired changes. Recent developments in the past two years, however, show a paralysis in these pro-Western ideologies.Drawing from qualitative data collected in central Ukraine and current literature, this thesis examines how recent political developments and current education policy affect Ukrainian youth's national identity and understanding of democracy. Despite students' strong grasp of democratic principles, their democratic understandings are influenced by Marxist ideologies. They understand their role within a democratic society, yet participate at superficial levels with increased feelings of disenfranchisement and cynicism. The future of Ukraine is threatened by its lack of a strong civil society and ethnic unification, as well as recent political upheaval.
From food to fashion: reusing waste for promoting sustainable fashion
Creators: name: Dymchenko, Olena
name: Gazzola, Patrizia
name: Pezzetti, Roberta Rita
name: Severi, Cecilia
Publisher: name: Economia Aziendale Online -
Year: 2021

description: The aim of the paper is to analyse an increasingly frequent and alarming problem, the generation of waste created along the entire food industry chain, with the aim to highlight the possibility of reusing waste in order to produce fashion items through new business models based on the principles “of the circular economy paradigm.” The paper investigates not only the companies’ business models adopted in order to transform what is considered waste and a mere cost into a new resource with a new value, but also the application of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The paper is divided into two parts: the first part is theoretical and is based on the literature review, in the second part an inductive approach has been applied. Due to the literature review two Research Questions have been investigated: RQ n. 1 – Can the use of food waste in fashion industry reduce the impact of the polluting? RQ n. 2 – What SDGs follow the companies of the fashion circular economy? In the research it was highlighted that through the application of an economy based on a circular model, solutions can be found to the problems of waste. Particular attention is paid on the possibilities of recovering by-products, through the analysis of “five best practices”: Orange Fiber, Duedilatte, Vegea, Piñatex and S. Café. The five business case histories show how a food by-product can be used in the fashion. The “circular business models” which have been examined contribute to the achievement of some of the 17 Sustainable Development objectives subscribed to by UN member countries, as examples of sustainable production and consumption patterns, inclusive economic growth, responsible innovation and a strong focus on safeguarding our planet.
description: Economia Aziendale Online -, Vol 12, No 4 (2021): ISSUE 4/2021
Optimized extraction of dimension stone blocks
Creators: name: Mosch, S.
name: Nikolayew, D.
name: Ewiak, O.
name: Siegesmund, S.
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2010

description: The profitable production of dimension stone mainly depends on the extractable block size. The regularity and volume of the blocks are of critical importance, and are controlled by the three-dimensional pattern of the discontinuity system. Therefore, optimization of block size has to be the aim when quarrying for natural stone. This is mainly connected to the quantification of joints and fractures, i.e., their spacing and orientation. The problem of finding unfractured blocks within arbitrarily oriented and distributed planes can be solved effectively by a numerical algorithm. The main effects of joint orientations on block sizes and shapes will be presented in this article. Quantification of unfractured blocks with the aim of optimization is illustrated by detailed studies on several quarries. The algorithm used in this study can be applied as a powerful tool in the planning of a quarry and the future exploitation of dimension stone. Application of the described approach is demonstrated on practical examples of quarrying natural stones, namely, sandstone, granite, rhyolite, etc. Block quarrying can be optimized by using the new 3D-BlockExpert approach. The quantification of unfractured rock masses is also shown to contribute to a more ecological protection and the sustainable use of natural resources.
Thermodynamics and Phase Diagram of High Temperature Superconductors
Creators: name: Curty, Philippe
name: Beck, Hans
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Thermodynamic quantities are derived for superconducting and pseudogap regimes by taking into account both amplitude and phase fluctuations of the pairing field. In the normal (pseudogap) state of the underdoped cuprates, two domains have to be distinguished: near the superconducting region, phase correlations are important up to the temperature $T_ϕ$. Above $T_ϕ$, the pseudogap region is only determined by amplitudes, and phases are uncorrelated. Our calculations show excellent quantitative agreement with specific heat and magnetic susceptibility experiments on cuprates. We find that the mean field temperature $T_0$ has a similar doping dependence as the pseudogap temperature $T^*$, whereas the pseudogap energy scale is given by the average amplitude above $T_c$.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
On the shape of spectra for non-self-adjoint periodic Schrödinger operators
Creators: name: Shin, Kwang C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 34L40; 81Q05

description: The spectra of the Schrödinger operators with periodic potentials are studied. When the potential is real and periodic, the spectrum consists of at most countably many line segments (energy bands) on the real line, while when the potential is complex and periodic, the spectrum consists of at most countably many analytic arcs in the complex plane. In some recent papers, such operators with complex $\mathcal{PT}$-symmetric periodic potentials are studied. In particular, the authors argued that some energy bands would appear and disappear under perturbations. Here, we show that appearance and disappearance of such energy bands imply existence of nonreal spectra. This is a consequence of a more general result, describing the local shape of the spectrum.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
An embedded variable step IMEX scheme for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations
Creators: name: DeCaria, Victor
name: Schneier, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This report presents a series of implicit-explicit (IMEX) variable timestep algorithms for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations (NSE). With the advent of new computer architectures there has been growing demand for low memory solvers of this type. The addition of time adaptivity improves the accuracy and greatly enhances the efficiency of the algorithm. We prove energy stability of an embedded first-second order IMEX pair. For the first order member of the pair, we prove stability for variable stepsizes, and analyze convergence. We believe this to be the first proof of this type for a variable step IMEX scheme for the incompressible NSE. We then define and test a variable stepsize, variable order IMEX scheme using these methods. Our work contributes several firsts for IMEX NSE schemes, including an energy argument and error analysis of a two-step, variable stepsize method, and embedded error estimation for an IMEX multi-step method.
description: 25 pages, 8 figures
Additional file 9 of The boon and bane of boldness: movement syndrome as saviour and sink for population genetic diversity
Creators: name: Premier, Joseph
name: Jörns Fickel
name: Heurich, Marco
name: Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 9: Figure S9. Individual inbreeding values of living individuals 50 years after reintroduction, by patch (1 = “source”, 2 = “arrival”), for all simulation runs of a subset of parameter space (see S2.1). For A – 10 founders and B – 50 founders. Inbreeding calculated by pedigree construction. Mean Inbreeding indicated by red line.
The Role of Conservation Programs in Drought Risk Adaptation
Creators: name: Wallander, Steven
name: Aillery, Marcel
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
name: Hand, Michael S.
name: Wallander, Steven
name: Aillery, Marcel
name: Hellerstein, Daniel
name: Hand, Michael S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Environmental Economics and Policy
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Risk and Uncertainty
subject: Climate
subject: conservation programs
subject: drought
subject: adaptation
subject: irrigation efficiency
subject: land retirement
subject: risk
subject: tillage

description: This report evaluates the extent to which farms facing higher levels of drought risk are more likely to participate in conservation programs, and finds a strong link between drought risk and program participation. Prior research has shown that climate-related risk exposure influences production decisions such as crop choice; our research shows that adaptation also includes program participation decisions. Programs like the Conservation Reserve Program and Environmental Quality Incentives Program play a role in drought preparedness and climate adaptation even if they do not directly target such behavior. Conservation program outcomes are influenced by regional differences in production risk, so participation choices due to drought risk can be an important consideration in designing such programs.
Additional file 1 of Insurance patterns and instability from 2006 to 2016
Creators: name: Yunwei Gai
name: Jones, Kent
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Appendix A: insurance patterns by three age groups (0–18, 19–25, and 26–64), three income groups by the Federal Poverty Line (less than 200% FPL, 200 to 399% FPL and 400 + % FPL), four geographic regions (Northeast, Midwest, South and West), four race/ethnicity groups (non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, Hispanic, and non-Hispanic other race), and whether a respondent is diagnosed with priority conditions
Effects of mixing granular iron with sand on the efficiency of methylene blue discoloration
Creators: name: Miyajima, K.
name: Noubactep, C.
Publisher: name: FID GEO
Year: 2012

description: The influence of granular sand on the efficiency of metallic iron (Fe0) for the discoloration of a methylene blue (MB) solution was investigated in the current work. The initial MB concentration was 10 mg L-1 and mass loadings within the range of 0 to 90 g L-1 for sand and 0 to 45 g L-1 for Fe0 were applied. The batch reaction vessel used was a graduated essay tube containing 22.0 mL of the MB solution. Shaking intensities of 0 and 75.0 rpm were applied for experimental durations of 7, 21 and 45 days. Results provide clear evidence that both Fe0 and sand were independently effective for the discoloration of MB. However, the latter material was significantly less effective, recording 54.0 % compared to 82.0 % recorded for the Fe0 after 45 days in experiment with 45.0 g L-1 of each material. Similarly, mixing 90 g L-1 sand with 45.0 g L-1 of Fe0 depicted a MB discoloration efficacy of 72.0 % demonstrating that the discoloration capability of the Fe0 was significantly ‘masked’ by the presence of sand. This observation provides clear evidence to question the common approach of using adsorbents for contaminant accumulation in the vicinity of Fe0 materials in order to facilitate chemical reduction by Fe0. Further research is required to determine the relative affinity of different materials that can be used in Fe0 mixtures for maximum contaminant removal efficacies.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation Leads to Modest Changes in Diet Quality
Creators: name: Gregory, Christian
name: Ver Ploeg, Michele
name: Andrews, Margaret
name: Coleman-Jensen, Alisha
name: Gregory, Christian
name: Ver Ploeg, Michele
name: Andrews, Margaret
name: Coleman-Jensen, Alisha
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety
subject: Food Security and Poverty
subject: Public Economics
subject: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
subject: food stamp
subject: food insecurity
subject: Healthy Eating Index
subject: diet quality
subject: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
subject: fruit and vegetable consumption
subject: ordinary least squares model
subject: treatment effects model
subject: average treatment effect

description: Recent research has shown that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) effectively reduces food insecurity. Questions remain, however, about the extent to which SNAP affects the quality of adult participants’ diets. These questions have surfaced in the context of the increasing public costs of diet-related illnesses, such as diabetes, high blood cholesterol, and heart disease, and have led to discussions about restricting the use of SNAP benefits to purchase some food items. This report examines Healthy Eating Index (HEI) scores for adults in low-income households that do and do not participate in SNAP. To disentangle the choice of whether to participate in SNAP from diet choices, this model uses a unique data set that matches State-level SNAP policy variables to individual-level data from four waves of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Two important kinds of results emerge: the effect of SNAP on the diet quality of those who choose to enroll, and a total comparison of SNAP participants and nonparticipants after SNAP’s effects are taken into account. On the first, this report shows that SNAP participation results in a large increase in the likelihood of consuming whole fruit and a slightly lower consumption of dark green/orange vegetables. On the second, the report finds that SNAP participants have slightly lower HEI scores (both total and components) than nonparticipants, meaning that they have slightly lower diet quality. They do, however, consume less saturated fat and sodium than nonparticipants.
Photometric Observations Constraining the Size, Shape, and Albedo of 2003 El61, a Rapidly Rotating, Pluto-Sized Object in the Kuiper Belt
Creators: name: Rabinowitz, David L.
name: Barkume, Kristina
name: Brown, Michael E.
name: Roe, Henry
name: Schwartz, Michael
name: Tourtellotte, Suzanne
name: Trujillo, Chad
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present measurements at optical wavelengths of the spectral reflectance, rotational light curve, and solar phase curve of 2003 EL61. With apparent visual magnitude 17.5 at 51 AU from the sun, this newly discovered member of the classical Kuiper Belt is now the third brightest KBO after Pluto and 2005 FY9. Our observations reveal an unambiguous, double-peaked rotational light curve with period 3.9154 +/- 0.0002 hours and peak to peak amplitude 0.28 +/- 0.04 mag. This is the fastest rotation period reliably determined for any body in the solar system larger than 100 km. Assuming the body has relaxed over time to the shape taken by a homogenous fluid body, our observations tightly constrain the shape and density. Given the mass we recently determined for 2003 EL61 from the orbit of a small satellite, we also constrain the size and albedo. We find a total length of 1960 to 2500 km, a mean density of 2600 to 3340 kg m-3, and a visual albedo greater than 0.6. We also measure a neutral reflectance at visible wavelengths and a linear phase curve with slope varying from 0.09 mag deg-1 in the B band to 0.13 mag deg-1 in the I band. The absolute V-band magnitude is 0.444+/-0.021.
description: 27 pages, six figures
Crisi economica da COVID-19 e misure di supporto pubblico alle imprese sociali. Un modello economico-aziendale di individuazione dei beneficiari
Creators: name: Montrone, Alessandro
name: Poledrini, Simone
Publisher: name: ----
Year: 2021
Subjects: Imprese sociali; Sostegno pubblico; Cooperative sociali; Crisi aziendali; COVID-19; Equilibrio economico; Equilibrio finanziario; Analisi per indici

description: Il tema delle crisi aziendali è oggetto di ricerca da parte degli studiosi di economia aziendale ormai da anni. Tuttavia, la crisi dell’impresa sociale non è ancora stata adeguatamente coperta da analisi teoriche ed empiriche. Per di più la crisi sanitaria da Covid-19, con le sue ricadute negative sull’intero sistema economico, fa emergere il bisogno di studi focalizzati sul presente tema anche in vista dei possibili finanziamenti pubblici a sostegno delle imprese sociali. Pertanto, il presente articolo indaga i criteri in base ai quali il decisore pubblico, tenendo conto della loro situazione economica e finanziaria, potrebbe erogare risorse alle imprese sociali. Per fare ciò è stata condotta un’analisi dei bilanci 2019 e 2020 di 1.167 cooperative sociali calcolando i valori di sei indici, tre dei quali mirano a verificare l’esistenza di una situazione di equilibrio finanziario, mentre i restanti tre servono a verificare la presenza di una condizione di equilibrio economico. Grazie alle risultanze emerse da tali indici, è stata generata una matrice di “salute” finanziaria ed economica in cui le imprese sono classificate in quattro categorie basate sulle possibili combinazioni date dall’esistenza o meno di equilibrio economico e di equilibrio finanziario. Sulla base delle categorie individuate sono proposte delle indicazioni di policy per il tipo di sostegno pubblico più adeguato alle imprese sociali italiane.
description: ----, Vol 12, No 4 (2021): ISSUE 4/2021
Discovering Business Area Effects to Process Mining Analysis Using Clustering and Influence Analysis
Creators: name: Lehto, Teemu
name: Hinkka, Markku
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A common challenge for improving business processes in large organizations is that business people in charge of the operations are lacking a fact-based understanding of the execution details, process variants, and exceptions taking place in business operations. While existing process mining methodologies can discover these details based on event logs, it is challenging to communicate the process mining findings to business people. In this paper, we present a novel methodology for discovering business areas that have a significant effect on the process execution details. Our method uses clustering to group similar cases based on process flow characteristics and then influence analysis for detecting those business areas that correlate most with the discovered clusters. Our analysis serves as a bridge between BPM people and business, people facilitating the knowledge sharing between these groups. We also present an example analysis based on publicly available real-life purchase order process data.
description: 12 pages. Paper accepted in 23rd International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2020) to be published in a proceedings edition of the Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing
Quantum resource covariance
Creators: name: Savi, Matheus Fritsch
name: Angelo, Renato Moreira
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The developments of special relativity and quantum mechanics marked the beginning of the modern physics age. The former has taught us that while space and time are frame dependent notions, there is a quantity -- the space-time interval -- whose value all inertial observers agree upon. This reveals, so to speak, a genuine "fact" of the universe, a relativistic invariant. On the other hand, since the dawn of quantum mechanics, there is no consensus on what the theory is all about. The situation is admittedly subtler: quantum theory is grounded on a complex vector space and the very notions of observer and reference frame are controversial. Here we construct a theoretical framework within which a given combination of quantum resources is shown to be a Galilean invariant. To this end, we postulate a principle of relational symmetry between "the observer" and "the observed" and employ the notion of quantum reference frame. Unitary transformations then follow that allow us to perceive the physical resources seen from the viewpoint of any quantum system. Interestingly, we find that one needs more than quantum coherence and quantum correlations to prove quantum resources covariance. Finally, we show that the notion of physical reality implied by quantum mechanics is not absolute.
description: 8 pages; 1 figure. Accepted for publication in Physical Review A. Comments are welcome!
Evolution of the isotropic to nematic phase transition in octyloxycyanobiphenyl+aerosil dispersions
Creators: name: Roshi, A.
name: Iannacchione, G. S.
name: Clegg, P. S.
name: Birgeneau, R. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: High-resolution ac-calorimetry has been carried out on dispersions of aerosils in the liquid crystal octyloxycyanobiphenyl (8OCB) as a function of aerosil concentration and temperature spanning the crystal to isotropic phases. The liquid-crystal 8OCB is elastically stiffer than the previously well studied octylcyanobiphenyl (8CB)+aerosil system and so, general quenched random disorder effects and liquid-crystal specific effects can be distinguished. A double heat capacity feature is observed at the isotropic to nematic phase transition with an aerosil independent overlap of the heat capacity wings far from the transition and having a non-monotonic variation of the transition temperature. A crossover between low and high aerosil density behavior is observed for 8OCB+aerosil. These features are generally consistent with those on the 8CB+aerosil system. Differences between these two systems in the magnitude of the transition temperature shifts, heat capacity suppression, and crossover aerosil density between the two regimes of behavior indicate a liquid crystal specific effect. The low aerosil density regime is apparently more orientationally disordered than the high aerosil density regime, which is more translationally disordered. An interpretation of these results based on a temperature dependent disorder strength is discussed. Finally, a detailed thermal hysteresis study has found that crystallization of a well homogenized sample perturbs and increases the disorder for low aerosil density samples but does not influence high density samples.
description: 30 total pages, 8 figures, 1 table submitted to Physical Review E 1 October 2003
SECULAR AND INDIVISIBLE? LAÏCITÉ, ISLAM AND THE FRENCH STATE
Creators: name: Clare, Julie M.
Publisher: name: ProQuest
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 4401
subject: Anthropology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, and has attractedattention in recent years for its attempts to assimilate and secularize Muslims.The state's view of Muslims is shaped by laïcité, or secularism, and by France'shistory of North African colonialism. Many French citizens oppose attempts byFrench Muslims to assert a group identity based on their religious and culturalbackground; at the same time, the historical diversity of France is often forgotten.Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims are on the rise across Europeand the United States. This thesis aims to explain how laïcité and Islamophobiashape the French government and general public's attitudes toward FrenchMuslims; how secularism, nationalism, colonialism and feminism areinterconnected, making criticism seem unpatriotic; and how the Western world'sframing of Islam as "the Other" overlooks the extent to which Islam is a part ofthe past, present and future of France.
Additional file 8 of The boon and bane of boldness: movement syndrome as saviour and sink for population genetic diversity
Creators: name: Premier, Joseph
name: Jörns Fickel
name: Heurich, Marco
name: Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 8: Figure S8. Density distribution of total number of descendants of founder individuals 50 years after reintroduction, by gender, for all simulation runs of a subset of parameter space (see S2.1). For A – 10 founders, and B – 50 founders.
Predictive validity of an innovative selective admissions process for baccalaureate nursing students
Creators: name: Billows, Jennifer Elizabeth
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: In 2006, the University of British Columbia (UBC) School of Nursing (SON) received UBC Senate approval to limit admission to their baccalaureate nursing program to third-year, with advanced standing entry. The judicious selection of nursing students is increasingly salient in light of the looming retirement of 'baby-boomer' nurses, the goal of minimizing attrition from educational programs, and the resource-intensive admission procedure currently utilized at UBC, in which the applicants' academic and non-academic backgrounds are evaluated. A retrospective, correlational study of all 1,343 applicants to the program, for entry between January 2003 and January 2006, was undertaken. A series of multiple, logistic, and ordinal regression analyses were conducted to determine whether the current selective admission tools used by the SON added any valuable information over that obtained through the consideration of admission grade point average (GPA), in the selection of students who would be both academically and clinically successful in the program. The admission tools included a supplemental application, comprised of a personal statement and structured resume, which outlined the applicant's leadership, volunteer and employment experiences, motivation for choosing a career in nursing, and ability to work with others. Interviews were conducted of selected applicants to further evaluate applicants' suitability for nursing, particularly with respect to their clinical aptitude. The study variables included the applicants' demographics, their supplemental application and interview scores, and their admission GPA, as well as the outcome variables of interest: offers of program admission and in-program course grades. Although admission GPA was consistently predictive of the students' success, neither the supplemental application nor the interview scores were found to have predictive utility. The supplemental application had particularly poor inter-rater reliability. The variables found to besignificantly predictive of the students' cumulative average grade for selected nursing courses were gender, visible minority status, and admission GPA, accounting for approximately 27% of the variance in grades (pseudo-R²= 0.27). The results provide little evidence to justify continuation of the admission process currently in place.
Physical weathering of building stones induced by freeze–thaw action: a laboratory long-term study
Creators: name: Ruedrich, J.
name: Kirchner, D.
name: Siegesmund, S.
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2010

description: Damages to natural building stones induced by the action of frost are considered to be of great importance. Commonly, the frost resistance of building stones is checked by standardised freeze–thaw tests before using. Corresponding tests normally involve 30–50 freeze–thaw action cycles. In order to verify the significance of such measurements, we performed long-term tests on four selected rocks over 1,400 freeze–thaw action cycles. Additionally, numerous petrophysical parameters were analysed to compare the behaviour of rocks in the weathering tests according to the current explanatory models of stress formation by growing ice crystals in the pore space. The long-term tests yield more information about the real frost sensibility of the rocks. A clear deterioration cannot be determined in most cases until 50 weathering cycles have been completed. In the freeze–thaw tests, the samples are also stressed by changing temperature and moisture, indicating that different decay mechanisms can interfere with each other. Thus, thermohygric and moisture expansion are important damage processes.
Bowing of dimensional granitic stones
Creators: name: Vázquez, P.
name: Siegesmund, S.
name: Alonso, F.
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2010

description: Bowing is a well-known phenomenon seen in marbles used as building veneers. This form of rock weathering occurs as a result of external factors such as temperature, humidity, the system for anchoring the marble slabs or the panel dimensions. Under the same external conditions, many factors will determine the degree of deformation including petrography, thermal properties and residual locked stresses. The usual way to solve the problem of bowed marble slabs is to replace them with other materials, such as granites, in which the deformation still exists but is less common. In this study, eight ornamental granites with different mineralogy, grain size, grain shape, porosity and fabric were tested in a laboratory to assess their susceptibility to bowing. Three slabs of granite, each cut with a different orientation, were studied under different conditions of temperature (90 and 120°C) and water saturation (dry and wet) to investigate the influence of these factors together with that of anisotropy. At 90°C, only the granite with the coarsest grain size and low porosity exhibited deformation under wet conditions. At 120°C and wet conditions, three of the granites showed evident signs of bowing. Again, the granite with the coarsest grain size was the most deformed. It was concluded that the wide grain size distribution influences microcracking more than other expected factors, such as the quartz content of the rock. Also, mineral shape-preferred orientation and porosity play an important role in the bowing of the studied granites.
Isomerization and Decomposition Reactions of Acetaldehyde Relevant to Atmospheric Processes from Dynamics Simulations on Neural Network-Based Potential Energy Surfaces
Creators: name: Käser, Silvan
name: Unke, Oliver T.
name: Meuwly, Markus
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Acetaldehyde (AA) isomerization (to vinylalcohol, VA) and decomposition (into either CO+CH$_4$ and H$_2$+H$_2$CCO) is studied using a fully dimensional, reactive potential energy surface represented as a neural network (NN). The NN, trained on 432'399 reference structures from MP2/aug-cc-pVTZ calculations has a MAE of 0.0453 kcal/mol and an RMSE of 1.186 kcal/mol for a test set of 27'399 structures. For the isomerization process AA $\rightarrow$ VA the minimum dynamical path implies that the C-H vibration, and the C-C-H (with H being the transferring H-atom) and the C-C-O angles are involved to surmount the 68.2 kcal/mol barrier. Using an excess energy of 93.6 kcal/mol - the energy available in the solar spectrum and sufficient to excite to the first electronically excited state - to initialize the molecular dynamics, no isomerization to VA is observed on the 500 ns time scale. Only with excess energies of $\sim$ 127.6 kcal/mol (including the zero point energy of the AA molecule), isomerization occurs on the nanosecond time scale. Given that collisional de-excitation at atmospheric conditions in the stratosphere occurs on the 100 ns time scale, it is concluded that formation of VA following photoexcitation of AA from actinic photons is unlikely. This also limits the relevance of this reaction pathway to be a source for formic acid.
Accurate and efficient splitting methods for dissipative particle dynamics
Creators: name: Shang, Xiaocheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study numerical methods for dissipative particle dynamics (DPD), which is a system of stochastic differential equations and a popular stochastic momentum-conserving thermostat for simulating complex hydrodynamic behavior at mesoscales. We propose a new splitting method that is able to substantially improve the accuracy and efficiency of DPD simulations in a wide range of the friction coefficients, particularly in the extremely large friction limit that corresponds to a fluid-like Schmidt number, a key issue in DPD. Various numerical experiments on both equilibrium and transport properties are performed to demonstrate the superiority of the newly proposed method over popular alternative schemes in the literature.
Elemental iron (Fe0) for better drinking water in rural areas of developing countries
Creators: name: Noubactep, Chicgoua
name: Woafo, P.
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2008

description: Many of the reasons behind the anthropogenic contamination problems in rural environments of developing countries lie in changes in the traditional way of life and the ignorance on the toxic potential of introduced manufactured products. A generalization trend exists within the international community suggesting that water in developing countries is of poor quality. However, the water quality is rarely analytically determined. Existing potabilization solutions may be prohibitively expensive for the rural populations. Therefore, efficient and affordable technologies are still needed to ameliorate the water quality. In the recent two decades,elemental iron has shown the capacity to remove all possible contaminants (including viruses) from the groundwater. This paper presents a concept to scale down the conventional iron barrier technology to meet the requirements of small communities and households in rural environments worldwide.
SECULAR AND INDIVISIBLE? LAÏCITÉ, ISLAM AND THE FRENCH STATE
Creators: name: Clare, Julie M.
Publisher: name: American University
Year: 2023

description: France has the largest Muslim population in Western Europe, and has attractedattention in recent years for its attempts to assimilate and secularize Muslims.The state's view of Muslims is shaped by laïcité, or secularism, and by France'shistory of North African colonialism. Many French citizens oppose attempts byFrench Muslims to assert a group identity based on their religious and culturalbackground; at the same time, the historical diversity of France is often forgotten.Islamophobia and discrimination against Muslims are on the rise across Europeand the United States. This thesis aims to explain how laïcité and Islamophobiashape the French government and general public's attitudes toward FrenchMuslims; how secularism, nationalism, colonialism and feminism areinterconnected, making criticism seem unpatriotic; and how the Western world'sframing of Islam as "the Other" overlooks the extent to which Islam is a part ofthe past, present and future of France.
All indexing is wrong; some indexing is useful : social tagging in libraries
Creators: name: Yousefi, Baharak
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2011

description: Social tagging, the activity and process by which users add descriptive tags to shared, digital content, is a socio-politically significant form of indexing. Adding social software to library OPACs challenges the legitimacy of traditional indexing languages and can enhance the information literacy - the ability to seek, find, and evaluate information - of library patrons, rendering social tagging a matter of import in the pursuit of critical librarianship. This thesis uses Sidney Tarrow's (1994) four basic properties of social movements - collective challenge, common purpose, solidarity, and sustaining collective action - to present social tagging as a social movement. It argues in favour of adopting an anarchist, and specifically Kropotkinist, paradigm for the future study, development, and implementation of social tagging. Most significantly, social tagging is carried out from the bottom upwards by means of patron contributions and not from the top downwards by means of authoritative rule. By choosing an anarchist paradigm, librarians and LIS scholars can make certain that social tagging continues to be maintained, developed, and studied as an anarchist social movement
Vertebrate tracksites in the Obernkirchen Sandstone (late Berriasian, Early Cretaceous) of northwest Germany— their stratigraphical, palaeogeographical, palaeoecological, and historical context
Creators: name: Hornung, Jahn
name: Böhme, Annina
name: Lubbe, Torsten
name: Reich, Mike
name: Richter, Annette
Publisher: name: Springer-Verlag
Year: 2012

description: The northern German Lower Cretaceous Bückeberg Formation yields numerous dinosaur tracksites, some of which have produced material of impressive quality. Stratigraphically, the localities are concentrated in the Obernkirchen Sandstone, a thin subunit within this formation. The Obernkirchen Sandstone represents mainly a sandy barrier to back-barrier and lagoonal setting within a limnic deltaic facies complex, which was deposited during the late Berriasian (Cypridea alta formosa ostracod subzone) in the southeast of the Lower Saxony Basin, northwest Germany. A few tracksites occur more proximally in coeval fluvial deposits. Dinosaur footprint assemblages were left by ornithopods, theropods, sauropods, ankylosaurs, and small, bipedal ornithischians. Other vertebrate tracks are those of turtles and, possibly, crocodilians. Due to the decrease in sandstone quarrying in recent decades, many old tracksites are inaccessible today. Additionally, historical descriptions of the tracks were of highly variable quality and often published in remote and today nearly unobtainable sources. Here we provide a catalogue of 13 tracksites compiled from the literature and some new observations. Of these 13 tracksites, only five are still accessible and currently under study. Descriptions of each locality are provided, with a comprehensive compilation of existing data on lithofacies, stratigraphy, palaeogeography and palaeoecology of the Obernkirchen Sandstone and equivalent strata. A short review of the track-bearing lithofacies assemblage indicates that the outcrop areas have distinctly different facies and environments, and, therefore, track-bearing horizons can only be correlated stratigraphically between adjacent outcrops. For this reason, the identification of a megatracksite in the Obernkirchen Sandstone is currently regarded as premature and uncertain.
Additional file 9 of Cytokine network analysis of immune responses before and after autologous dendritic cell and tumor cell vaccine immunotherapies in a randomized trial
Creators: name: Nistor, Gabriel I.
name: Dillman, Robert O.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine

description: Additional file 9. First canonical discriminant function explained 90.2% of variance.
Transport equation for the photon Wigner operator in non-commutative QED
Creators: name: Brandt, F. T.
name: Das, Ashok
name: Frenkel, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive an exact quantum equation of motion for the photon Wigner operator in non-commutative QED, which is gauge covariant. In the classical approximation, this reduces to a simple transport equation which describes the hard thermal effects in this theory. As an example of the effectiveness of this method we show that, to leading order, this equation generates in a direct way the Green amplitudes calculated perturbatively in quantum field theory at high temperature.
description: 13 pages, twocolumn revtex4 style
Additional file 6 of The boon and bane of boldness: movement syndrome as saviour and sink for population genetic diversity
Creators: name: Premier, Joseph
name: Jörns Fickel
name: Heurich, Marco
name: Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6: Figure S6. Accumulated Local Effects (ALE) plots for RF regression analysis of genetic outputs Ho, FST and FIS, using demographic covariates.
Additional file 7 of The boon and bane of boldness: movement syndrome as saviour and sink for population genetic diversity
Creators: name: Premier, Joseph
name: Jörns Fickel
name: Heurich, Marco
name: Kramer-Schadt, Stephanie
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 7: Figure S7. Number of founder individuals taking part in reproduction by gender, for all simulation runs of a subset of parameter space (see S2.1). For A – 10 founders, and B – 50 founders. The mean values indicated by the dotted line.
High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy
Creators: name: Voelk, H. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The physics results of high energy gamma-ray astronomy are reported, emphasizing recent achievements with ground-based detectors. This includes some of the instrumental developments and latest projects. The fundamental contribution of the field to the question of Cosmic Ray origin is highlighted.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, to appear as Plenary Paper, Proceedings of the Eigth International Workshop on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP2003), University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 5-9 September 2003. High quality versions of the manuscript (ps-file) and of figures 2 and 12 can be found at http://edoc.mpg.de/60181. Replacement corrects typos, adds reference
A Central Partition of Molecular Conformational Space.III. Combinatorial Determination of the Volume Spanned by a Molecular System
Creators: name: Gabarro-Arpa, Jacques
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the first work of this series [physics/0204035] it was shown that the conformational space of a molecule could be described to a fair degree of accuracy by means of a central hyperplane arrangement. The hyperplanes divide the espace into a hierarchical set of cells that can be encoded by the face lattice poset of the arrangement. The model however, lacked explicit rotational symmetry which made impossible to distinguish rotated structures in conformational space. This problem was solved in a second work [physics/0404052] by sorting the elementary 3D components of the molecular system into a set of morphological classes that can be properly oriented in a standard 3D reference frame. This also made possible to find a solution to the problem that is being adressed in the present work: for a molecular system immersed in a heat bath we want to enumerate the subset of cells in conformational space that are visited by the molecule in its thermal wandering. If each visited cell is a vertex on a graph with edges to the adjacent cells, here it is explained how such graph can be built.