cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Entropies and Logarithms
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Entropy
Shannon entropy
Hartley entropy
Rényi entropy
Maximum Entropy Principle
Uniform distribution
Geometric distribution
Generalized Entropies
q-entropy
κ-entropy
q-logarithm
κ-logarithm
q-exponential
κ-exponential
κ-calculus

description: Here we assume a discrete random variable, possessing a one-to-one correspondence with the set of natural numbers. Its Shannon entropy is considered and some distributions, obtained by means of the Maximum Entropy Principle, will be discussed too. Then two entropies, the q-entropy and κ-entropy proposed by C. Tsallis and G. Kaniadakis respectively, will be considered. These entropies have as their limit the Shannon entropy when entropic parameters q and κ approach specific values. We will show some relationships existing between the Shannon entropy and these generalized entropies and between Tsallis and Kaniadakis entropies and give some links regarding other functions, in particular logarithms. Exponentials will be discussed too. We will also address ourselves to the generalization of the sum, in the framework of the κ-calculus proposed by Kaniadakis.
Data mining with the use of machine learning algorithms on a dataset that contains on-time delivered shipments
Creators: name: Στυλιανος, Μίνως Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Εξόρυξη δεδομένων
Αλγόριθμοι Ταξινόμησης
Έγκαιρη παράδοση
Data mining
Classification algorithms
On-time delivery

description: Modern supply chains are complex, huge and are producing vast amounts of raw data. This enormous flow of data can produce crucial information for decision making if handled correctly. Data mining is the tool that will aid to manage all this data and generate information that will help companies to further improve and develop. Data mining is the scientific field that can help to handle all this data and extract information that will help managers in decision making. In this dissertation a small taste of the capabilities of data mining is presented. With the use of classification algorithms, we attempted to predict if the delivery of the product was or not within the predefined time limits. Before the application of the classification algorithms, it is important to understand the preprocessing stages and all the steps that must be followed. Furthermore, each classification algorithm is a tool that can be used only in specific datasets and hence the option of the most capable algorithms is more than essential in data mining.
description: Οι σύγχρονες αλυσίδες εφοδιασμού είναι πολύπλοκες, τεράστιες και παράγουν τεράστιες ποσότητες ακατέργαστων δεδομένων. Αυτή η τεράστια ροή δεδομένων μπορεί να παράγει κρίσιμες πληροφορίες για τη λήψη αποφάσεωνλήψη αποφάσεων, εάν αντιμετωπιστούν σωστά. Η εξόρυξη δεδομένων είναι το εργαλείο που θα βοηθήσει στη διαχείριση όλων αυτών των δεδομένωνκαι να παράγει πληροφορίες που θα βοηθήσουν τις εταιρείες να βελτιωθούν και να αναπτυχθούν περαιτέρω. Η εξόρυξη δεδομένων είναι ο επιστημονικός τομέας που μπορεί να βοηθήσει στη διαχείριση όλων αυτών των δεδομένων και να εξάγει πληροφορίες που θα βοηθήσουν τους διαχειριστές στη λήψη αποφάσεων. Στην παρούσα διατριβή παρουσιάζεται μια μικρή των δυνατοτήτων της εξόρυξης δεδομένων . Με τη χρήση αλγορίθμων ταξινόμησης, επιχειρήσαμε να προβλέψουμε αν η παράδοση του προϊόντος ήταν ή όχι εντόςστα προκαθορισμένα χρονικά όρια. Πριν από την εφαρμογή των αλγορίθμων ταξινόμησης, είναισημαντικό να κατανοήσουμε τα στάδια προ επεξεργασίας και όλα τα βήματα που πρέπει να πρέπει να ακολουθηθούν. Επιπλέον, κάθε αλγόριθμος ταξινόμησης είναι ένα εργαλείο που μπορεί να χρησιμοποιηθεί μόνο σεσυγκεκριμένα σύνολα δεδομένων και, ως εκ τούτου, η επιλογή των πιο ικανών αλγορίθμων είναι περισσότερο από απαραίτητη στην εξόρυξη δεδομένων.
A Combined View of Sterile-Neutrino Constraints from CMB and Neutrino Oscillation Measurements
Creators: name: Bridle, Sarah
name: Elvin-Poole, Jack
name: Evans, Justin
name: Fernandez, Susana
name: Guzowski, Pawel
name: Soldner-Rembold, Stefan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a comparative analysis of constraints on sterile neutrinos from the Planck experiment and from current and future neutrino oscillation experiments (MINOS, IceCube, SBN). For the first time, we express the Planck constraints on $N_{\rm eff}$ and $m_{\rm eff}^{\rm sterile}$ from the Cosmic Microwave Background in the parameter space used by oscillation experiments using both mass-squared differences and mixing angles. In a model with a single sterile neutrino species and using standard assumptions, we find that the Planck data and the oscillation experiments measuring muon-neutrino disappearance have similar sensitivity.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, Version accepted by Physics Letters B, minor changes to text, results unchanged
Percepción sobre la eficacia de los medicamentos genéricos en estudiantes del área de la salud de una universidad de la ciudad Cartagena de Indias D, T y C. matriculados en el segundo periodo del año 2022
Creators: name: Marimon Villero, Daniel Eduardo
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Asistencia farmacéutica
subject: Servicios farmacéuticos
subject: Estudiantes – Salud
subject: Estudiantes universitarios

description: El presente trabajo de investigación realizado en el tiempo transcurrido en el segundo periodo del 2022, permitió identificar la percepción que tienes los estudiantes del área de la salud de una universidad de Cartagena. En este estudio de tipo cuantitativo, descriptivo de corte transversal se utilizó como técnica de recolección de la información la encuesta y se aplicó un cuestionario, este cuestionario fue validado por estudios previos sobre tema en cuestión tomándose como guía y siendo modificado a conveniencia para luego ser llevado a la práctica, fue evaluado con una prueba piloto y posteriormente llevada a cabo para identificar cuáles fueron las variables que influyen en la percepción de los estudiantes de área de la salud de una universidad de Cartagena, para lo cual se tomó una muestra de 328 alumnos de 4 facultades de todo el campus (medicina 116 alumnos, enfermería 77 alumnos, odontología 71 alumnos y química farmacéutica 64 alumnos), y se llevó a cabo con un consentimiento informado de dio a conocer cuál era el motivo del estudio y que se entraba de forma voluntaria al mismo; se evaluaron temas relevantes para la investigación como la percepción de los medicamentos genéricos, la efectividad de los medicamentos genéricos, el consumo de los mimos y con esto se logró identificar estos factores que pueden incluir en la toma de decisiones al momento de tomar la decisión al mundo llegue el momento de recetar o informar acerca de este tipo de medicamentos. Teniendo en cuenta que tanto medicamentos genéricos como de marca comercial cumplen las mismas funciones al momento de ser consumido la percepción que se tenga de éstos es muy importante ya que los pacientes pueden llegar a gastar un monto mayor de dinero por un medicamento de marca comercial, y que uno genérico puede ofrecer las mismas cualidades a mejor precio. En Colombia el problema con los medicamentos genéricos se podría resumir en que si bien, estos medicamentos pueden ser más económicos y tener los principios activos del medicamento de marca comercial, en la gran mayoría no se encuentran respaldados por estudios clínicos que garanticen su aprobación ante las autoridades sanitarias. Aclarando que esto no se da en todos los casos, algunas organizaciones de pacientes solicitaron al Ministerio de Salud colombiano que se incluyan estudios preclínicos y clínicos antes de ser comercializados. En el área de la salud es frecuente escuchar por parte de médicos y comunidad en general una postura negativa en cuanto a la efectividad de los medicamentos genéricos, ya que en algunos casos son confundidos con medicamentos falsificados o ilegales que no tienen ninguna relación con estos.
FX UMa: A New Heartbeat Binary System with Linear and Non-linear Tidal Oscillations and delta Sct Pulsations
Creators: name: Wang, Kun
name: Ren, Anbing
name: Andersen, Mads Fredslund
name: Grundahl, Frank
name: Chen, Tao
name: Palle, Pere L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed analysis of an eclipsing double-lined binary FX UMa based on TESS photometry and newly acquired spectroscopic observations. The radial velocities and atmospheric parameters for each component star are obtained from the SONG high-resolution spectra. Combined with the radial-velocity measurements, our light-curve modeling yields absolute masses and radii of the two components. The Fourier amplitude spectrum of the residual light curve reveals a total of 103 frequencies with signal-to-noise ratio (S/N) > 4, including 12 independent frequencies, 17 multiples of the orbital frequency (Nforb), and 74 combination frequencies. Ten Nforb peaks with S/N > 10 have very high amplitudes and are likely due to tidally excited oscillations (TEOs). The remaining Nforb peaks (4 < S/N < 10) may be originated from the imperfect removal, or they are actually real TEOs. Four anharmonic frequencies can pair up and sum to give exact harmonics of the orbital frequency, suggesting the existence of non-linear tidal processes in the eccentric binary system FX UMa. Eight independent frequencies in the range of 20 to 32 day$^{-1}$ are typical low-order pressure modes of delta Scuti pulsators.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, Accepted for publication in AJ
Power corrections to the electromagnetic spectral function and the dilepton rate in QCD plasma within operator product expansion in D=4
Creators: name: Bandyopadhyay, Aritra
name: Mustafa, Munshi G
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We evaluate the electromagnetic spectral function in QCD plasma in a nonperturbative background of in-medium quark and gluon condensates by incorporating the leading order power corrections in a systematic framework within the ambit of the operator product expansion in D=4 dimension. We explicitly show that the mixing of the composite operators removes mass singularities and renders Wilson coefficients finite and well defined. As a spectral property, we then obtain the nonperturbative dilepton production rate from QCD plasma. The operator product expansion automatically restricts the dilepton rate to the intermediate mass range, which is found to be enhanced due to the power corrections. We also compare our result with those from nonperturbative calculations, e.g., lattice QCD and effective QCD models based on Polyakov loop.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures; Discussion added on OPE scales, version accepted in JHEP
Assessment of knowledge attitude and practice with regard to AIDS hotline service among preparatory school students in Addis Ababa.
Creators: name: Mamo, Emebet
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2007

description: Young peoples specific needs of sexual and reproductive information and service remained poorly understood or served in most of the countries of the world. These days; however, since young people SRH problems are becoming serious public health issues in many countries the needs of specific youth friendly SRH services for young people have gained attention. A cross sectional descriptive survey through a self administered anonymous and structured questionnaire was conducted from March 2007- April 2007 in randomly selected preparatory schools found in Addis Ababa. Students who are in grade 11 and 12 were included to determine their knowledge, attitude and practice with regard to AIDS hotline counseling service. In this study 805 participants filled out a structured and pre tested questionnaire. Focus group discussion also conducted with two groups (male and female) students selected from Anti AIDS club members both in governmental and non governmental schools prior to the quantitative data collection in order to know any information which may be essential for the preparation of the questionnaire as well to supplement the findings of quantitative result. Among the respondents 424 (52.8%) were male and the mean age (+SD) of respondents was 16.98 (+1.2) years. Six hundred ninety seven (86.7%) of the participants reported that they knew about the existence of AIDS hotline counseling services and 211 (30.2 %) used the service of whom 118 (56.0%) were males and 93 (44.0%) were females and the major reason for calling was facts such as ways of HIV/AIDS transmission and related facts.
Tidal modelling as an inverse problem
Creators: name: McIntosh., Peter Christopher
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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Guía para la aplicación de asuntos regulatorios en el desarrollo de medicamentos de síntesis química a partir de la normatividad colombiana vigente
Creators: name: Tatis Villa, Gloribett
Publisher: name: Universidad de Cartagena
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicamentos
subject: Industrias químicas
subject: Preparaciones farmacéuticas
subject: Drogas - Industria y comercio
subject: Farmacia – Legislación

description: Esta monografía describe la normativa aplicable a la fabricación de medicamentos de síntesis química a partir de las fases de desarrollo, por lo que, resulta ser una guía para definir los aspectos generales académicos, de regulación y éticos, que todo medicamento nuevo debe satisfacer para probar su seguridad y eficacia, con el propósito de favorecer su disponibilidad y venta. Sabemos que los asuntos regulatorios son indicadores de la seguridad y eficacia que debe tener el proceso de desarrollo de los medicamentos, en este caso, tendremos en cuenta los medicamentos de síntesis química. Para identificar los asuntos regulatorios que aplican en este proceso antes mencionado es necesario describirlo y relacionar la normatividad aplicable vigente en cada una de sus fases, tales como: investigación y desarrollo, estudios clínicos y producción. Lo anterior, nos permite establecer una ruta de las leyes, decretos y normas que regulan la fabricación de los medicamentos objeto de estudio. Entre las normas a resaltar tenemos la Resolución 1403 del 2007 que describe el modelo de gestión de calidad, la Resolución 2378 de 2008 que explica cómo se debe implementar las BPC para las instituciones o establecimientos farmacéuticos, también se detalla la Resolución 2514 de 1995 que es una guía de los requisitos para el desarrollo de estudios de estabilidad de medicamentos de síntesis química, la Resolución 2378 de 2008 que aplica a instituciones que conducen investigación con medicamentos en humanos para que cumplan con las BPC, entre otras. Por último, en las fases de desarrollo podemos evidenciar de manera más puntual como cada ley, decreto y resolución es un proceso que va de la mano para poder cumplir con cada uno de los requerimientos exigidos y así brindarle al paciente: eficacia, calidad y seguridad. Gracias a la correcta aplicación de esta normatividad en todas las fases se puede asegurar una correcta recopilación de toda la información que el INVIMA exige para poder obtener con éxito el Registro sanitario.
Life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, his relatives, friends, and enemies : comprising all his wills and his ways : with an historical record of what he did, and what he didn't : showing, moreover, who inherited the family plate, who came in for the silver spoons, and who for the wooden ladles : the whole forming a complete key to the house of Chuzzlewit, no. 6
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Picaresque literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1063598
subject: Families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728849
subject: Dysfunctional families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728523
subject: Selfishness
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111948
subject: Orphans
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1048433

description: The main theme of the novel according to Dickens's preface is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. Dickens introduced the first private detective character in this novel. The original parts issued from January 1843 to July 1844. Chapters 13-15: Chapter 13. Showing, what became of Martin and his desperate resolve, after he left Mr. Pecksniff's house; what persons he encountered; what anxieties he suffered; and what news he heard -- Chapter 14. In which Martin bids adieu to the lady of his love; and honours an obscure individual whose fortune he intends to make, by commending her to his protection -- Chapter 15. The burden whereof, is Hail Columbia!
Determining spin-orbit coupling in graphene by quasiparticle interference imaging
Creators: name: Sun, Lihuan
name: Rademaker, Louk
name: Mauro, Diego
name: Scarfato, Alessandro
name: Pásztor, Árpád
name: Gutiérrez-Lezama, Ignacio
name: Wang, Zhe
name: Martinez-Castro, Jose
name: Morpurgo, Alberto F.
name: Renner, Christoph
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Inducing and controlling spin-orbit coupling (SOC) in graphene is key to create topological states of matter, and for the realization of spintronic devices. Placing graphene onto a transition metal dichalcogenide is currently the most successful strategy to achieve this goal, but there is no consensus as to the nature and the magnitude of the induced SOC. Here, we show that the presence of backscattering in graphene-on-WSe$_2$ heterostructures can be used to probe SOC and to determine its strength quantitatively, by imaging quasiparticle interference with a scanning tunneling microscope. A detailed theoretical analysis of the Fourier transform of quasiparticle interference images reveals that the induced SOC consists of a valley-Zeeman ($λ_{\text{vZ}}\approx 2$ meV) and a Rashba ($λ_\text{R}\approx 15$ meV) term, one order of magnitude larger than what theory predicts, but in excellent agreement with earlier transport experiments. The validity of our analysis is confirmed by measurements on a 30 degree twist angle heterostructure that exhibits no backscattering, as expected from symmetry considerations. Our results demonstrate a viable strategy to determine SOC quantitatively by imaging quasiparticle interference.
Probabilistically Robust SWIPT for Secrecy MISOME Systems
Creators: name: Khandaker, Muhammad R. A.
name: Wong, Kai-Kit
name: Zhang, Yangyang
name: Zheng, Zhongbin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper considers simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in a multiple-input single-output (MISO) downlink system consisting of one multi-antenna transmitter, one single-antenna information receiver (IR), multiple multi-antenna eavesdroppers (Eves) and multiple single-antenna energy-harvesting receivers (ERs). The main objective is to keep the probability of the legitimate user's achievable secrecy rate outage as well as the ERs' harvested energy outage caused by channel state information (CSI) uncertainties below some prescribed thresholds. As is well known, the secrecy rate outage constraints present a significant analytical and computational challenge. Incorporating the energy harvesting (EH) outage constraints only intensifies that challenge. In this paper, we address this challenging issue using convex restriction approaches which are then proved to yield rank-one optimal beamforming solutions. Numerical results reveal the effectiveness of the proposed schemes.
description: This is an open access article accepted for publication as a regular paper in the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security. Copyright (c) 2016 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. However, permission to use this material for any other purposes must be obtained from the IEEE by sending a request to pubs-permissions@ieee.org
title: The Topicality of the Difference Thesis
title: Revisiting Constructivism and the Laboratory
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Merz, Martina
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 330

description: Within science and technology studies, constructivism has never existed as a single variant but under alternative interpretations. In this article it is argued that the different variants have maintained their topicality in unequal measure. It focuses on two variants of constructivism: The first emphasizes the isomorphism of scientific and other practices and insists that there are no epistemic particularities in scientific knowledge production ('analogy approach'); the second accounts for the success of contemporary science by relating it to the specifics of scientific laboratories ('difference approach'). In this paper it is argued that the second variant can provide a set of challenging research problems that have not, to date, been sufficiently addressed in the literature. The problems center on the relation between laboratories and contexts of application, as well as on the concept of the laboratory and its possible extensions. In contrast, the issues associated with the analogy approach have been well explored in previous bodies of work. This article develops a research agenda for a constructivist account of knowledge production that may be employed within other discourses in the social sciences.s
description: Science, Technology & Innovation Studies
Mean exit time and escape probability for the anomalous processes with the tempered power-law waiting times
Creators: name: Deng, Weihua
name: Wu, Xiaochao
name: Wang, Wanli
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mean first exit (passage) time characterizes the average time of a stochastic process never leaving a fixed region in the state space, while the escape probability describes the likelihood of a transition from one region to another for a stochastic system driven by discontinuous (with jumps) Lévy motion. This paper discusses the two deterministic quantities, mean first exit time and escape probability, for the anomalous processes having the tempered Lévy stable waiting times with the tempering index $λ>0$ and the stability index $0
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Κατανεμημένη ενίσχυση εντοπισμού θέσης
Creators: name: Μουρελής, Αγγελος Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ευφυείς πράκτορες
Εντοπισμός θέσης
Διόρθωση εντοπισμού
Intelligent agents
Localization
Localization enhancement

description: Ο εντοπισμός (localization) ενός ευφυούς πράκτορα, αφορά την επίγνωση της θέσης του στο χώρο. Όταν πρόκειται για σμήνος πρακτόρων, η θέση αυτή, αφορά είτε το ρομποκε- ντρικό σύστημα συντεταγμένων της κάθε μονάδας ξεχωριστά, είτε ένα καθολικό, μεταξύ τους, σύστημα. Ο αλγόριθμος LadyBug, εντοπίζει τη θέση ενός πομπού σε ρομποκεντρικό σύστημα. Κατ’ επέκτασή του, η μέθοδος From Robot Self-Localization to Global-Localization, κατασκευάζει κατανεμημένα ένα καθολικό σύστημα συντεταγμένων μεταξύ των πρακτόρων, και επιτρέπει τη μετατροπή ενός ρομποκεντρικά εκφρασμένου σημείου, στο σύστημα αυτό, με χαμηλό υπολογιστικό κόστος. Προς μείωση του σφάλματος εντοπισμού θέσης στο καθολικό σύστημα, παρουσιάζουμε έναν αλγόριθμο κατανεμημένης διόρθωσης της τοποθεσίας εκτίμησης. Κύρια ιδέα του, είναι το σμήνος να συνδυάσει το σύνολο των εκτιμήσεών του. Παρουσιάζονται οι επιδόσεις του αλγορίθμου ως προς την μείωση του σφάλματος, ενώ εξετάζονται οι παράμετροι οι οποίες το επηρεάζουν, καθώς και οι μεταξύ τους συσχετίσεις
description: Αγγλική Περίληψη Localization of an intelligent agent, refers to the perception of it’s position in space. When a swarm of agents is considered, the position might be expressed in a robot-centric coordinate system, or one that is globally shared amongst them. LadyBug algorithm, offers a scheme to accurately calculate, the coordinates of a beacon agent, transmitting a signal. As it’s extension, method From Robot Self-Localization to Global- Localization, constructs a global coordinate system between the agents, in a distributed manner, while it allows the translation of any robot-centric point, to that system, in a computationally efficient way. In an attempt to reduce the localization error of that globally translated position, we introduce a distributed localization enhancement algorithm. The main idea, lies on the swarm’s ability to collectively combine all approximations. We present the results on error reduction of the initially calculated localization, while analyzing all parameters affecting it, as well as the relations between them
title: A helping hand or a servant discipline?
title: Interpreting non-academic perspectives on the roles of social science in participatory policy-making
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Burchell, Kevin
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2009
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 330

description: In the UK, a diverse network of actors has emerged around the delivery of government-sponsored processes of public participation in science and technology. Although this network includes social scientists, the relationship between social science and participatory policy-making remains an ambiguous one. My objective in this paper is to reflect in an exploratory manner on non-academic perspectives of the roles of social science in public participation. In particular, I draw attention to the contrasting conceptions of the policy relevant roles of social science that appear to prevail among academic social scientists (a discipline in which the analysis and critique of modes of thought and action are valued highly) and the non-academic actors (a discipline that is valued for its instrumental, problem-oriented potential). Further, I explore the ways in which the non-academic conception of social science as an instrumental discipline might be interpreted; for example, as merely providing a helping hand or, more pointedly, as a servant discipline to the objectives and interests of others. I conclude with an exploratory discussion of the challenges and opportunities that this contrast presents for social scientists. Further, I make the case that social scientists should clearly advocate the policy relevance and value of analysis and critique.
description: Science, Technology & Innovation Studies
Nachweis von Tropheryma whipplei
Creators: name: Gaumert, Miriam Estella
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Trotz der beobachteten Unterschiede bei den diagnostischen Leistungsdaten können PCR-basierte Screeningverfahren für T. whipplei in Punktprävalenz- und Surveillancestudien verwendet werden. Sofern die Sensitivität und Spezifität für das Testerfahren bekannt sind, können die Testergebnisse durch genauigkeitsbereinigende mathematische Methoden korrigiert werden. Für die Untersuchung einzelner Testpersonen lassen sich solche Verfahren nicht anwenden, so dass hier mindestens Messungen mit zwei verschiedenen Verfahren genutzt werden sollten.
Active dynamics of tissue shear flow
Creators: name: Popović, Marko
name: Nandi, Amitabha
name: Merkel, Matthias
name: Etournay, Raphaël
name: Eaton, Suzanne
name: Jülicher, Frank
name: Salbreux, Guillaume
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We present a hydrodynamic theory to describe shear flows in developing epithelial tissues. We introduce hydrodynamic fields corresponding to state properties of constituent cells as well as a contribution to overall tissue shear flow due to rearrangements in cell network topology. We then construct a generic linear constitutive equation for the shear rate due to topological rearrangements and we investigate a novel rheological behaviour resulting from memory effects in the tissue. We identify two distinct active cellular processes: generation of active stress in the tissue, and actively driven topological rearrangements. We find that these two active processes can produce distinct cellular and tissue shape changes, depending on boundary conditions applied on the tissue. Our findings have consequences for the understanding of tissue morphogenesis during development.
Social enterprising projects: Understanding the social entrepreneurship from the project management perspective
Creators: name: Phillips, Robert
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150304 Entrepreneurship
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Proceedings of the British Academy of Management (2022) Shiyuan Fang, Lihong Zhang and Robert A. Phillips.
 The past decades have witnessed a significant growth of social business enterprising and high failures of such entrepreneur project. Studies into social entrepreneurship have exponentially increased and a framework of individual, organizational and institutional has emerged to help understand the project process. While most literature focus their discussion at the organizational level, little has been investigated to relate this framework to project management. This study intends to address the research gap by identifying and justifying the latent connection between social entrepreneurship and project management. It … by clarifying social enterprising project and the framing the process model of delivering this kind of project. It is expected that this study would advance the understanding of social entrepreneurship by aligning with the project management knowledge and create a new interpretation of social enterprising and inspire extant and potential social entrepreneurs to act as project managers to successfully deliver social entrepreneurship.
Three Forms of Interpretative Flexibility
Creators: name: Meyer, Uli
name: Schulz-Schaeffer, Ingo
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 330

description: Interpretative flexibility is a central concept of social constructivism in science and technology studies. We think this concept, as it exists, can and should be elaborated. In this paper, we argue that interpretative flexibility can be traced back to three different forms of infinite regress: the regress of truth, the regress of usefulness, and the regress of relevance. Resulting from this analysis, we observe three different forms of interpretative flexibility. We will show that in controversies or debates concerning the meaning of certain scientific facts, technological artefacts or research approaches, concurrently or consecutively more than one of these different forms of interpretative flexibility may play a part. With this reconceptualisation of interpretative flexibility, we hope to contribute to a more elaborate understanding of the dynamics of the social construction of scientific facts and technological artefacts.
description: Science, Technology & Innovation Studies
Софтверски систем за даљинско управљање и надзор робота базиран на андроид оперативном систему и бежичној комуникацији
Creators: name: Banduka, Maja Lutovac
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: даљинско управљање
надзор
интуитивно програмирање
бежична комуникација
индустријски роботи
Андроид
едукација
роботика
паметни телефони
мобилне платформе

description: Роботски системи су сложени системи чији корисници морају бити добро обучени. Управљање се најчешће спроводи близу самог робота или употребом жичне конекције. Данашње брзе промене и напредак у развоју технологије захтевају имплементацију нових технолошких решења у области програмирања и управљања индустријских робота и других робота специјалне намене. У савременој роботској индустрији постоји стална потреба за унапређењем приступачности и интеракције у раду са роботским системима, па је све већи значај развоја корисничких интерфејса који су интуитивни и лаки за коришћење. У складу са тим, приликом пројектовања графичког корисничког интерфејса за програмирање и управљање робота није довољно направити фокус само на обезбеђивању детаљних и комплетних функционалности управљања, већ се ергономија употребе такође треба узети у обзир. Поред тога, масивни и недоступни роботи све више захтевају управљање независно од локације оператера. Ресурси везани за роботске лабораторије често нису доступни корисницима које тек треба обучити за рад са оваквим системима, a рад са роботским системима често захтева детаљно познавање софтверских парадигми за програмирање робота. Због наведених разлога студенти који тек уче о основним принципима роботике углавном нису у могућности да се упознају са програмирањем и управљањем комплексних роботских система на практичан начин. У области едукације у роботици, бежична виртуелна окружења, која дају реалну слику о раду робота, би била од великог значаја. Посебно би се издвојио њихов значај у случају примене таквог решења за едукацију у области управљања слабо доступних робота као што су, на пример, уређаји за адаптацију и тренинг пилота. Такође, поред едукативне сврхе, употреба лако доступних, широко распрострањених и економичних уређаја би била јако исплатива. Истраживање о генералној употреби и знању студената о технологији паметних телефона, које је спроведено у оквиру ове докторске дисертације, потврђује да данашњи брз развој технологије захтева унапређење метода за учење и едукацију...
Η εικόνα των αρχαίων Μακεδόνων στα σχολικά εγχειρίδια του νεοελληνικού κράτους (από τη δεκαετία του 1850 έως το 2020)
Creators: name: Ματράκας, Θεόδωρος Παναγιώτη
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Μακεδονία
Αρχαίοι Μακεδόνες
Σχολικά εγχειρίδια Ιστορίας
Macedonia
Ancient Macedonians
History schoolbooks

description: Η παρούσα εργασία αποσκοπεί στην αποδελτίωση των αναφορών στους αρχαίους Μακεδόνες στα σχολικά εγχειρίδια Ιστορίας που διδάσκονταν στην Πρωτοβάθμια και Δευτεροβάθμια Εκπαίδευση του νεοελληνικού κράτους και στη διερεύνηση της ιστορικής τους ακρίβειας. Η υπό εξέταση περίοδος εκκινείται από το 1850, οπότε και χρονολογείται η πρώτη έκδοση ενός σχολικού εγχειριδίου Αρχαίας Ιστορίας, και τερματίζεται στις μέρες μας. Από τις πρώτες μεταφράσεις των ξενόγλωσσων εγχειριδίων μέχρι τη συγγραφή αυτοτελών έργων, οι αναφορές των σχολικών βιβλίων στους αρχαίους Μακεδόνες θα παρουσιαστούν και θα αναλυθούν στο πλαίσιο της κοινωνικής και πολιτισμικής ιστορίας της μνήμης. Πέραν της εξέτασης της πιστότητας των σχετικών με τους αρχαίους Μακεδόνες αναφορών, θα υπάρξει και μία σύντομη παρουσίαση των ιστορικών γεγονότων που διαδραματίστηκαν κατά την εξεταζόμενη χρονική περίοδο και συσχέτισή τους με τον τρόπο απομνημόνευσης της ιστορίας της Μακεδονίας, ώστε να εξαχθούν χρήσιμα συμπεράσματα για τους λόγους που οδήγησαν στις εκάστοτε αλλαγές στον τρόπο παρουσίασης των Μακεδόνων και των βασιλέων τους σε αυτά τα σχολικά εγχειρίδια
description: The objective of the present study is to list the references to the ancient Macedonians in the History schoolbooks that were taught in the Primary and Secondary Education in the Modern Greek state and to investigate their historical accuracy. The years being investigated cover the period from 1850, when the first edition of an Ancient History schoolbook was published, up to the present day. From the first translations of foreign language schoolbooks to the writing of independent works, schoolbook references to the ancient Macedonians will be presented and analyzed in the context of the social and cultural history of memory. In addition to the examination of the veracity of the references relating to the ancient Macedonians, there will also be a brief presentation of the historical events that took place during the period under examination and their correlation with the way of remembering the history of Macedonia, in order to draw useful conclusions about the reasons that led to changes in the way the Macedonians and their kings were represented in these schoolbooks
Assessment of the difference of school feeding programme on school participation among primary school children in Bishoftu Town, East Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State
Creators: name: Guta, Asmamaw
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2014

description: Introduction: Empirical studies reveal that school feeding programs have significant positive impact on school participation. Such studies suggest school feeding programs are effective in encouraging school enrollment, enhancing class attendances, and lowering student drop-outs. To the contrary, few other studies reveal that there are no observable impacts of school feeding program on school participation Objective: Compare the difference in school participation; specifically on school enrollment, class attendance and drop-out of students of school feeding program beneficiary and nonbeneficiary children of primary school, in Bishoftu Town of East Shoa Zone, Oromia Regional State, Ethiopia. Methods: Community based comparative cross-sectional study was employed to compare the difference in school participation of 428 respondents from school feeding program and 428 respondents from non school feeding program schools. Simple random sampling technique was employed to identify the schools and study participants; household questionnaire, key informant interviews and school record review were used to collect data. Collected quantitative data were analyzed using mean, proportion, independent sample test and bivariate correlation techniques. The study was carried out after getting permission from research and ethics committee of School of Public Health, Addis Ababa University College of Health Science. Results: Except enrollment (p=.001) the study found no significant positive effect of school feeding program on two of school participation indicators (attendance and drop-out), although it has some roles with regard to these objectives. The result also shows that the major factors affecting school enrollment are availability of school, school factor, distance to school, the availability of food incentives and safety concerns. Whereas, those affecting class attendance and student drop-out were illness, domestic work (29.3% for SFP and 21.41% for non SFP households), school hour hunger and distance to school. Besides, it has been determined that even among beneficiary (p=0.001) households, the older the household head is the higher likely that the children get enrolled. However, it is found that neither household head education nor household income have significant effect on student drop-out in beneficiary households. Conclusion: The study recommends that both the nutritional and economic values of school feeding program should be improved in order to significantly enhance school participation.
Studies of summertime cold fronts using a numerical weather prediction model
Creators: name: McInnes., Kathleen Lynne
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Deliberative Constructivism
Creators: name: Krohn, Wolfgang
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: 300
subject: 330

description: The paper proposes to expand the constructivist view from empirical analysis to pragmatic advice. Its main thesis is: The fact that methods and concepts in the production of knowledge and standards for justifying truth claims are culturally bound does not preclude these bonds from being observed and also controlled and adjusted. Knowledge work imports scientific methods and concepts into virtually all segments of society. Whether knowledge is well manufactured and trustworthy is no longer the sole concern of scientific communities but of clients, stakeholder groups, political bodies, and other actors. The paper begins with reconsidering the symmetry principle of the Strong Programme from a methodological point of view. It argues that excluding justified beliefs from the realm of independent variables is unwarranted. Even if it is impossible to introduce truth as a cause, it is possible to accept justifications of beliefs as causes. In a second line of analysis, this paper explores that the concept of cultural relativity of knowledge has an internal instability. Every lesson in cultural relativism is a lesson in designing cognitive strategies to transcend it. The better the social construction of scientific knowledge is understood and even causally explained, the better reflexive abstraction opens up possibilities to operate with this causality and loosen or tighten the cultural bonds. Examples demonstrate that crossing established boundaries and aiming at higher degrees of cultural independency are as meaningful as value based restrictions to smaller domains. It is in this context that constructivism has a future as a frame for deliberative forms of knowledge construction and justification.
description: Science, Technology & Innovation Studies
Structural studies of biologically important molecules by rotational spectroscopy
Creators: name: McGlone., S. J.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2021

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Salvaging Power-Law Inflation through Warming
Creators: name: Alhallak, M.
name: Chamoun, N.
name: Eldaher, M. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Power-Law inflation with scale factor $a \propto t^m$ is investigated in the context of warm inflation. The treatment is performed in the weak and strong dissipation limits. In addition, we discuss the three common cases for the thermal dissipation coefficient $Γ(T)$. We compare the theoretical results of the Power-Law model within warm inflation with the observational constraints from Planck $2018$ and BICEP/Keck 2018, as presented by the tensor-to-scalar ratio $r$ and spectral index $n_s$. The model results agree largely with the observations for most of the $Γ(T)$ cases. Furthermore, in order to address the problem of exiting the inflationary epoch, we suggest a perturbed modification to the power-law definition so that it becomes affine, and find that this small change indicates a way for having an exit scenario with a suitable e-foldings number. Finally, we examine this perturbation ansatz within the context of cold inflation with exponential potential, and we find that it can accommodate the observational data with sufficient e-foldings. Our study suggests that the power-law inflation and the exponential potential, in both warm and cold inflation contexts, can in principle be made consistent with the observations and with a possible graceful exit.
description: pdflatex, 15 pages (epjc style), 7 tables, 4 figures, 5 table-figures, major revision, accepted version to appear in EPJC
The CALYMHA survey: Lya luminosity function and global escape fraction of Lya photons at z=2.23
Creators: name: Sobral, David
name: Matthee, Jorryt
name: Best, Philip
name: Stroe, Andra
name: Röttgering, Huub
name: Oteo, Iván
name: Smail, Ian
name: Morabito, Leah
name: Paulino-Afonso, Ana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the CAlibrating LYMan-$α$ with H$α$ (CALYMHA) pilot survey and new results on Lyman-$α$ (Lya) selected galaxies at z~2. We use a custom-built Lya narrow-band filter at the Isaac Newton Telescope, designed to provide a matched volume coverage to the z=2.23 Ha HiZELS survey. Here we present the first results for the COSMOS and UDS fields. Our survey currently reaches a 3$σ$ line flux limit of ~4x10$^{-17}$ erg/s/cm$^{2}$, and a Lya luminosity limit of ~10$^{42.3}$ erg/s. We find 188 Lya emitters over 7.3x10$^5$ Mpc$^{3}$, but also find significant numbers of other line emitting sources corresponding to HeII, CIII] and CIV emission lines. These sources are important contaminants, and we carefully remove them, unlike most previous studies. We find that the Lya luminosity function at z=2.23 is very well described by a Schechter function up to L~10$^{43}$ erg/s with L$^*=10^{42.59+-0.05}$ erg/s, $ϕ^*=10^{-3.09+-0.08}$ Mpc$^{-3}$ and $α$=-1.75+-0.15. Above L~10$^{43}$ erg/s the Lya luminosity function becomes power-law like, driven by X-ray AGN. We find that Lya-selected emitters have a high escape fraction of 37+-7%, anti-correlated with Lya luminosity and correlated with Lya equivalent width. Lya emitters have ubiquitous large (~40 kpc) Lya haloes, 2x larger than their Ha extents. By directly comparing our Lya and Ha luminosity functions we find that the global/overall escape fraction of Lya photons (within a 13 kpc radius) from the full population of star-forming galaxies is 5.1+-0.2% at the peak of the star formation history. An extra 3.3+-0.3% of Lya photons likely still escape, but at larger radii.
description: 19 pages, 11 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. Catalogue of line emitters available with MNRAS refereed paper
Life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, his relatives, friends, and enemies : comprising all his wills and his ways : with an historical record of what he did, and what he didn't : showing, moreover, who inherited the family plate, who came in for the silver spoons, and who for the wooden ladles : the whole forming a complete key to the house of Chuzzlewit, no. 15
Creators: name: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Picaresque literature
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1063598
subject: Families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728849
subject: Dysfunctional families
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1728523
subject: Selfishness
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1111948
subject: Orphans
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1048433

description: The main theme of the novel according to Dickens's preface is selfishness, portrayed in a satirical fashion using all the members of the Chuzzlewit family. Dickens introduced the first private detective character in this novel. The original parts issued from January 1843 to July 1844. Chapters 39-41: Chapter 39. Containing some further particulars of the domestic economy of the Pinches; with strange news from the city, narrowly concerning Tom -- Chapter 40. The Pinches make a new acquaintance, and have fresh occasion for surprise and wonder -- Chapter 41. Mr. Jonas and his friend, arriving at a pleasant understanding, set forth upon an enterprise