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Individualism in adult education : an analysis
Creators: name: Dawson, Jane Margaret
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: There is a line of critique within the adult education literature which remarks on the individualistic nature of the field, its theories, values, and practices. In addition to pointing out the abundant manifestations of individualism — andragogy is held up as a typical example — these authors also maintain that individualism is not so much a particular attribute of adult education as a reflection of modern Western culture as a whole. In light of this general cast of the critique, the intent of this thesis was to examine the statements about individualism in adult education from the perspective of two contemporary philosophers, Charles Taylor and Alasdair Maclntyre, in whose works the concept of the individual is seen to be a crucial factor in the development of modern civilization. The question was asked: "How does the adult education critique of individualism measure up against Taylor's and Maclntyre's views about the key cultural and social role of the idea of the individual?" The analysis involved three tasks: first an examination of the statements about individualism in the adult education literature to determine their central and thematic features; second, the construction of an analytic framework derived from pertinent elements of Taylor's and Maclntyre's work; third, an assessment of the adult education statements from the perspective of the views presented in the framework. Conclusions drawn in the analysis were that according to the views of these two philosophers, the adult education critique of individualism provides only a partial picture of the way in the which the concept of the individual influences the workings of modern thought and sensibility (taking adult education as a microcosm of wider societal patterns). In addition to being a shaping factor of the status quo, as the adult education critics claim, the concept of the individual is also seen as a shaping factor of views which are most critical of the status quo; the same core values and beliefs underlie both affirmative and critical stances towards individualism, and towards society. For Taylor and Maclntyre, to understand the tensions of modernity requires viewing both stances together in terms not just of their differences but also their close relationship. Thus from their view, the adult education critique fails to adequately account a central ingredient of modernity related to the topic of individualism. The significance of this evaluation for adult education theory and research is that a deeper understanding is needed of the way in which the notion of the individual is woven into the contemporary social fabric, in order to come to terms with "what is really going on" not only in adult education but in the wider scope of human affairs.
Orbital Optimization in Selected Configuration Interaction Methods
Creators: name: Yao, Yuan
name: Umrigar, C. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study several approaches to orbital optimization in selected configuration interaction plus perturbation theory (SCI+PT) methods, and test them on the ground and excited states of three molecules using the semistochastic heatbath configuration interaction (SHCI) method. We discuss the ways in which the orbital optimization problem in SCI resembles and differs from that in complete active space self-consistent field (CASSCF). Starting from natural orbitals, these approaches divide into three classes of optimization methods according to how they treat coupling between configuration interaction (CI) coefficients and orbital parameters, namely uncoupled, fully coupled, and quasi-fully coupled methods. We demonstrate that taking the coupling into account is crucial for fast convergence and recommend two quasi-fully coupled methods for such applications: accelerated diagonal Newton and Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno (BFGS).
description: 5 figures
Strong Fulde-Ferrell Larkin-Ovchinnikov pairing fluctuations in polarized Fermi systems
Creators: name: Pini, M.
name: Pieri, P.
name: Strinati, G. Calvanese
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the pair susceptibility of an attractive spin-polarized Fermi gas in the normal phase, as a function of the pair momentum. Close to unitarity, we find a strong enhancement of Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) pairing fluctuations over an extended region of the temperature-polarization phase diagram, which manifests itself as a pronounced peak in the pair-momentum distribution at a finite pair momentum. This peak should be amenable to experimental observation at achievable temperatures in a box-like trapping potential, as a fingerprint of FFLO pairing. Our calculations rest on a self-consistent t-matrix approach which, for the unitary balanced Fermi gas, has been validated against experimental data for several thermodynamic quantities.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures; includes calculations for a realistic box-like trapping potential
Additional file 1 of Identification of bio-climatic determinants and potential risk areas for Kyasanur forest disease in Southern India using MaxEnt modelling approach
Creators: name: Pramanik, Malay
name: Singh, Poonam
name: Dhiman, Ramesh C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Showing reported tick presence (Haemaphysalis spinigera), monkey death and human cases in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Goa, Maharashtra state of India. Table S2. Climatic variables selected for the preliminary and final model. Table S3. Correlation matrix among the bio-climatic variables. The Cut-off threshold values are shown (r ≥ 0.8) in bold.
મરઘાં પાલન વ્યવસાયનું ગ્રામ્ય અર્થકારણમાં અગત્યતા
Creators: name: ડો. હાર્દ પટેલ૧, ડો. જે. વી. પટેલ૨ અને ડો. રહીશ રાજપુરા૩
Publisher: name: The Science world a Monthly e magazine
Year: 2024

description: આપણો દેશ ખેતી પ્રધાન દેશ છે. દેશની આબાદી ગ્રામ્ય અર્થકારણ સાથે સીધી રીતે સંકળાયેલ છે. ગામડું સુખી તો દેશ સુખી. ગ્રામ્ય વસ્તીના લગભગ ૭૦ ટકા લોકો તેમની આવક/રોજગારી માટે ખેતી તેમજ તેને સંલગ્ન વ્યવસાય આધારિત છે. વસ્તી વધારાના કારણે પરિસ્થિતિ બદલાઈ છે.જમીનના વારસાઈ હક્કથી ટુકડા થતા જાય છે. ખેતી માટેની જમીનનું કદ નાનું થતું જાય છે. આમ કુટુંબ દીઠ આવકનું સાધન મર્યાદિત બનતું જાય છે. વળી કુદરતી કે અન્ય પરિબળોના કારણે ખેત પેદાશોના ઉત્પાદન અને ભાવમાં સ્થિરતા જળવાતી નથી. એટલે આવકનો સ્ત્રોત અનિયમિત રહે છે. જ્યારે બીજી બાજુ ખર્ચ૩૮૮૮૧૦નું પ્રમાણ દિન પ્રતિદિન એક ધાર્યું વધતું જ જાય છે. આમ આવક અને ખર્ચમાં અસમતુલન પેદા થતાં ગ્રામ્ય કક્ષાએ સામાજીક અને વ્યવસાયિક પરંપરામાં ફેરફારો થતાં જોવા મળે છે. પરિણામ સ્વરૂપ ખેતી સિવાય અન્ય સાધનો / ધંધા દ્વારા પૂરક રોજી આવક મેળવવા લોકો આકર્ષાય છે.
Radio and X-ray nebulae associated with PSR J1509-5850
Creators: name: Hui, C. Y.
name: Becker, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have discovered a long radio trail at 843 MHz which is apparently associated with middle age pulsar PSR J1509-5850. The radio trail has a length of ~7 arcmin. In X-rays, Chandra observations of PSR J1509-5850 reveal an associated X-ray trail which extends in the same orientation as the radio trail. Moreover, two clumpy structures are observed along the radio trail. The larger one is proposed to be the supernova remnant (SNR) candidate MSC 319.9-0.7. Faint X-ray enhancement at the position of the SNR candidate is found in the Chandra data.
description: Accepted by A&A, 5 pages, 4 figures, 1 table
Pileup subtraction using jet areas
Creators: name: Cacciari, Matteo
name: Salam, Gavin P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the major challenges for the LHC will be to extract precise information from hadronic final states in the presence of the large number of additional soft pp collisions, pileup, that occur simultaneously with any hard interaction in high luminosity runs. We propose a novel technique, based on jet areas, that provides jet-by-jet corrections for pileup and underlying-event effects. It is data driven, does not depend on Monte Carlo modelling and can be used with any jet algorithm for which a jet area can be sensibly defined. We illustrate its effectiveness for some key processes and find that it can be applied also in the context of the Tevatron, low-luminosity LHC and LHC heavy-ion collisions.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures. Revised version with many changes and additions, small and larger. No changes in conclusions. Version published in Physics Letters B
The first law of entanglement entropy in AdS black hole backgrounds
Creators: name: Ishibashi, Akihiro
name: Maeda, Kengo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The first law for entanglement entropy in CFT in an odd-dimensional asymptotically AdS black hole is studied by using the AdS/CFT duality. The entropy of CFT considered here is due to the entanglement between two subsystems separated by the horizon of the AdS black hole, which itself is realized as the conformal boundary of a black droplet in even-dimensional global AdS bulk spacetime. In $(2+1)$-dimensional CFT, the first law is shown to be always satisfied by analyzing a class of metric perturbations of the exact solution of a $4$-dimensional black droplet. In $(4+1)$-dimensions, the first law for CFT is shown to hold under the Neumann boundary condition at a certain bulk hypersurface anchored to the conformal boundary of the boundary AdS black hole. From the boundary view point, this Neumann condition yields there being no energy flux across the boundary of the boundary AdS black hole. Furthermore, the asymptotic geometry of a $6$-dimensional small AdS black droplet is constructed as the gravity dual of our $(4+1)$-dimensional CFT, which exhibits a negative energy near the spatial infinity, as expected from vacuum polarization.
description: 15 pages, two figures. Appendix is given for Noether charge formula and discussions are added. To be published in PRD
Von der Schneiderin zur Bundestagsabgeordneten – Die Gewerkschaftsfunktionärin Liesel Kipp-Kaule
Creators: name: Notz, Gisela
Publisher: name: Moving the Social
Year: 2015

description: Already at the age of 22, Liesel Kipp-Kaule joined the trade-union ‘Textile and Clothing’. From 1949 until 1963 she was a member of the prime executive board and furthermore, she worked for the Department of Women and Youth. In 1949 Dr. Kurt Schumacher recommended the resolute ‘Bielefelderin’ as a trade-unionist for the First German “Bundestag” (the Federal Diet). For sixteen years, she worked as a member of the Social-Democratic parliamentary party in the German ‘Bundestag’. She stood up for equality between women and men, for equal payment in equal jobs, for the implementation of unionised demands in the leave-taking of the law for maternity protection as well as for an improvement in the professionalism of custodial and social jobs. She has been a battlesome woman and as “a daughter of the people” she has never forgotten her proletarian origins.
description: Moving the Social, Vol 35 (2006): Die Gewerkschaftselite der Nachkriegszeit: Prägung - Funktion - Leitbilder
Walter Hesselbach: Bankier der Gewerkschaften
Creators: name: Schneider, Michael
Publisher: name: Moving the Social
Year: 2015

description: Walter Hesselbach was born (20.1.1915) and grew up in Frankfurt/M. He was active in the socialdemocratic youth movement. After the Abitur (1933) he completed an apprenticeship as banker. Since 1940 he was soldier in the Wehrmacht and then became prisoner of war.
Back in Frankfurt/M. in 1947 Hesselbach started his career as banker. Besides he was active in the Frankfurt SPD as a local politician. 1958 he got the mandate to unite the regional branches of the cooperative banks (Gemeinwirtschaftsbanken) owned by the trade unions. As head of the central executive board he formed the Bank für Gemeinwirtschaft (BfG) into one of the most successful banks of the 1960ies and 1970ies. For Hesselbach, working for the BfG was not only an economic and social task; equally important he considered his political mission: He aimed at the reconciliation between Israel and Germany, he supported the Ostpolitik of Willy Brandt and he backed up the process of democratization in Spain and Portugal. When in 1977 he retired from the executive board the BfG was on the peak of it’s success. Some years later, in 1982, the smash of the Neue Heimat marked the decline of the cooperative economy. This overshadowed the last years of Walter Hesselbach who died on the 5. November 1993.
description: Moving the Social, Vol 35 (2006): Die Gewerkschaftselite der Nachkriegszeit: Prägung - Funktion - Leitbilder
Branching fraction and charge asymmetry measurements in B to J/psi pi pi decays
Creators: name: The BABAR Collaboration
name: Aubert, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the decays B0 to J/psi pi+pi- and B+ to J/psi pi+pi0, including intermediate resonances, using a sample of 382 million BBbar pairs recorded by the BaBar detector at the PEP-II e+e- B factory. We measure the branching fractions B(B0 ->J/psi rho0) = (2.7 +/- 0.3 +/- 0.17) x 10-5 and B(B+ ->J/psi rho+) = (5.0 +/- 0.7 +/-0.31) x 10-5. We also set the following upper limits at the 90% confidence level: B(B0 -> J/psi pi+ π- non-resonant) < 1.2 x 10-5, B(B0 -> J/psi f_2(1270)) < 4.6 x 10-6, and B(B+ -> J/psi pi+ pi0 non-resonant) < 4.4 x 10-6. We measure the charge asymmetry in charged B decays to J/psi rho to be -0.11 +/- 0.12 +/- 0.08.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures, submitted to PRD-Rapid communications
Differentiable Sorting Networks for Scalable Sorting and Ranking Supervision
Creators: name: Petersen, Felix
name: Borgelt, Christian
name: Kuehne, Hilde
name: Deussen, Oliver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sorting and ranking supervision is a method for training neural networks end-to-end based on ordering constraints. That is, the ground truth order of sets of samples is known, while their absolute values remain unsupervised. For that, we propose differentiable sorting networks by relaxing their pairwise conditional swap operations. To address the problems of vanishing gradients and extensive blurring that arise with larger numbers of layers, we propose mapping activations to regions with moderate gradients. We consider odd-even as well as bitonic sorting networks, which outperform existing relaxations of the sorting operation. We show that bitonic sorting networks can achieve stable training on large input sets of up to 1024 elements.
description: Published at ICML 2021, Code @ https://github.com/Felix-Petersen/diffsort, Video @ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38dvqdYEs1o
Low-mass lithium-rich AGB stars in the Galactic bulge: evidence for Cool Bottom Processing?
Creators: name: Uttenthaler, Stefan
name: Lebzelter, Thomas
name: Palmerini, Sara
name: Busso, Maurizio
name: Aringer, Bernhard
name: Lederer, Michael T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context: The stellar production of the light element lithium is still a matter of debate. Aims: We report the detection of low-mass, Li-rich Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) stars located in the Galactic bulge. Methods: A homogeneous and well-selected sample of low mass, oxygen-rich AGB stars in the Galactic bulge has been searched for the absorption lines of Li. Using spectral synthesis techniques, we determine from high resolution UVES/VLT spectra the Li abundance in four out of 27 sample stars, and an upper limit for the remaining stars. Results: Two stars in our sample have a solar Li abundance or above; these stars seem to be a novelty, since they do not show any s-element enhancement. Two more stars have a Li abundance slightly below solar; these stars do show s-element enhancement in their spectra. Different scenarios which lead to an increased Li surface abundance in AGB stars are discussed. Conclusions: Of the different enrichment scenarios presented, Cool Bottom Processing (CBP) is the most likely one for the Li-rich objects identified here. Self-enrichment by Hot Bottom Burning (HBB) seems very unlikely as all Li-rich stars are below the HBB mass limit. Also, the ingestion of a low mass companion into the stars' envelope is unlikely because the associated additional effects are lacking. Mass transfer from a former massive binary companion is a possible scenario, if the companion produced little s-process elements. A simple theoretical estimation for the Li abundance due to CBP is presented and compared to the observed values.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, accepted by A&A Letters
Die Arbeiter des estnischen Ölschieferbeckens – eine Industrieregion des Stalinismus
Creators: name: Mertelsmann, Olaf
Publisher: name: Moving the Social
Year: 2015

description: The article deals with the Estonian oil shale region Ida-Virumaa and how it turned into a Stalinist industrial area. Oil shale mining started already in 1916, mining and processing of oil shale expanded largely during the period of Estonian independence due to state protection and subsidies. After the Soviet occupation and annexation of the country in 1940, plans to extend mining and processing developed, but were not fulfilled because of the outbreak of war. Under German occupation the oil shale industry was at first neglected, but beginning with 1943 work intensified with the help of slave labor of Soviet POW‘s and Jewish concentration camp inmates. Soviet reconstruction projected a steep increase of mining and processing. Ida-Virumaa became one major target of industrial investment in the post-war decade, a large “building site of Socialism”. The aims were the provision of energy and the support of Soviet armaments, because uranium could be found in the area and oil and special fuels were desperately needed by the Soviet forces. Like under Nazi occupation, slave labor of POW‘s and camp inmates played an important role until 1949. Because war damages had been the largest in the entire Estonian SSR and living and working conditions were the worst in the republic, there existed an extreme shortage of workers. Campaigns to mobilize Estonians to work there utterly failed. The only way to solve the problem was to hire migrants from other regions of the Soviet Union, where conditions were even worse. The migration led to the Russification of the region, but this development was not intended by the regime. Only in the second half of the 1950s life turned normal and the conditions became bearable.
description: Moving the Social, Vol 37 (2007): Sowjetische Bergleute und Industriearbeiter - Neue Forschungen
Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in gastroenterology and its current epidemiological situation: An updated review until January 2021
Creators: name: Nabil, Ahmed
name: Elshemy, Mohamed M.
name: Uto, Koichiro
name: Soliman, Reham
name: Hassan, Ayman A.
name: Shiha, Gamal
name: Ebara, Mitsuhiro
Publisher: name: IfADo - Leibniz Research Centre for Working Environment and Human Factors, Dortmund
Year: 2021
Subjects: COVID-19
SARS-CoV-2
digestive system
anal swab
GI
liver
epidemiology

description: Coronaviruses are positive-sense single-strand RNA viruses that infect amphibians, birds, and mammals. Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has become a major health problem caused by one of the coronaviruses called severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). It has spread fast throughout the globe since its first identification in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Although COVID-19 is principally defined by its respiratory symptoms, it is now clear that the virus can also affect the digestive system causing gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms like diarrhea, loss of appetite, nausea/vomiting, and abdominal pain as a major complaint. GI symptoms could be the initial signs of preceding respiratory signs, carrying a potential for slowed investigation and raised disease transmission opportunities. Various studies recognized the COVID-19 RNA in stool specimens of infected patients, and its viral receptor angiotensin-converting enzyme-2 (ACE-2) is highly expressed in GI epithelial cells. Many cases were reported negative using nasopharyngeal/oropharyngeal swabs and finally, SARS‐CoV‐2 RNA was detected in their anal/rectal swabs and stool specimens. These suggest that COVID-19 can actively infect and replicate in the GI tract. In this review, we elaborate on the close relationship between SARS-CoV-2 and the digestive system, focusing on the current status in the field of COVID-19 in gastroenterology, liver injury, endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, imaging, and the potential underlying mechanisms with illustrating the current epidemiological status regarding this pandemic.
description: EXCLI Journal; 20:Doc366; ISSN 1611-2156
A procedural framework for reflective problem setting in policy research : the case of schools
Creators: name: Owen-Clarke, Patricia
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: This study was prompted by the currently troubled state of public schooling in Canada and the United States; and by the perceived need for an analytical technique that would enable policymakers to pay conscious attention to the task of problem setting—as a critically important precursor to the task of problem solving. Inquiry was, therefore, directed at developing, and applying to the case of schools, an approach to reflective problem setting proposed by Rein and Schon (1977). Premised on the notion that the framing of problems depends upon metaphors that are often unwittingly, and consequently, uncritically used to make sense of troublesome social situations--this approach is concerned with subjecting to scrutiny the deep metaphors found to underlie the 'stories' told about problematic social situations. Accordingly, a procedural framework was developed for uncovering, and analysing such metaphors, and for examining their policy-related utility. These procedures were applied — in the case of schools--to the analysis of a major policy-influencing document of our times, namely, the 1983 Report by the U.S. National Commission on Excellence in Education titled, "A Nation at Risk: The Imperative for Educational Reform." The findings of this analysis suggested that the Commission had (metaphorically) viewed the school as an industrial workplace with a mass production mode of technology: one whose level and standard of productivity had slipped, and whose need was for the implementation of more rigorous quality control measures. In response to the critical appraisal of this metaphoric frame, the problem of schools was reframed as one involving the need for second-order system change; the school being seen (metaphorically) as a mass production workplace in need of gearing-up to a 'process' mode of technology (focussed on the continuous 'flow' of learning). The organizational characteristics found in workplaces having a 'process' mode of technology were projected to suggest the analogical implications for the school of tomorrow. Given the positive nature of these implications, it was concluded that this metaphor for change merited the attention of educational policymakers; and that the procedural framework used to frame it warranted further investigation by policy analysts.
Additional file 1 of Hypothalamic-pituitary hormones will be affected by the interaction between 5q13-14-rs2239670 (CARTPT) gene variants and diet in different obesity phenotypes
Creators: name: Mahmoudinezhad, Mahsa
name: Abbasalizad-Farhangi, Mahdieh
name: Kahroba, Houman
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Additional file 1: Fig. S1.Full length, original unprocessed gels of CART rs2239670 genotyping by Apa-I PCR-RFLP analysis. M: 50 bp DNA ladder.
Text Line Segmentation of Historical Documents: a Survey
Creators: name: Likforman-Sulem, Laurence
name: Zahour, Abderrazak
name: Taconet, Bruno
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: There is a huge amount of historical documents in libraries and in various National Archives that have not been exploited electronically. Although automatic reading of complete pages remains, in most cases, a long-term objective, tasks such as word spotting, text/image alignment, authentication and extraction of specific fields are in use today. For all these tasks, a major step is document segmentation into text lines. Because of the low quality and the complexity of these documents (background noise, artifacts due to aging, interfering lines),automatic text line segmentation remains an open research field. The objective of this paper is to present a survey of existing methods, developed during the last decade, and dedicated to documents of historical interest.
description: 25 pages, submitted version, To appear in International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, On line version available at http://www.springerlink.com/content/k2813176280456k3/
The characteristic quasi-polynomials of the arrangements of root systems and mid-hyperplane arrangements
Creators: name: Kamiya, Hidehiko
name: Takemura, Akimichi
name: Terao, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: Representation Theory (math.RT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32S22, 05B35, 17B20

description: Let $q$ be a positive integer. In our recent paper, we proved that the cardinality of the complement of an integral arrangement, after the modulo $q$ reduction, is a quasi-polynomial of $q$, which we call the characteristic quasi-polynomial. In this paper, we study general properties of the characteristic quasi-polynomial as well as discuss two important examples: the arrangements of reflecting hyperplanes arising from irreducible root systems and the mid-hyperplane arrangements. In the root system case, we present a beautiful formula for the generating function of the characteristic quasi-polynomial which has been essentially obtained by Ch. Athanasiadis and by A. Blass and B. Sagan. On the other hand, it is hard to find the generating function of the characteristic quasi-polynomial in the mid-hyperplane arrangement case. We determine them when the dimension is less than six.
Die Ethnisierung des Proletariats. Arbeiter in der Ölindustrie Bakus im ersten Drittel des 20. Jahrhunderts
Creators: name: Grünewald, Jörn
Publisher: name: Moving the Social
Year: 2015

description: Revolutions are turning points of political development. However, they do not completely turn upside down all existing social practices in a society. Nor can they interrupt cultural traditions and memories. Yet, after 1917 the victorious Bolsheviks set out to do just that: they sought to create a “new man”, a person completely divided from the cultural past of Russia and the Russian Empire. But they sought to make people undergo a “double assimilation” (Francine Hirsch), as the population of the former Tsarist Empire was not only forced to adopt to the revolutionary new ways of the first socialist country in the world. Most people, especially those living outside the core of Russia, were forced to perceive of themselves as members of a modern nation. The European concept of nationhood was transferred by force to contexts where it had not existed before. The city of Baku‘s oil industry is an example of how this “nationalising” of identities lead to problematic results. The Bolsheviks‘ nation building drive was based on a pre-revolutionary tradition of percieving ethnic differences as markers of civilizational development. This eurocentric approach resulted in loading ethnic and cultural differences with additional potential for conflict.
description: Moving the Social, Vol 37 (2007): Sowjetische Bergleute und Industriearbeiter - Neue Forschungen
On the interpretation of muon-spin-rotation experiments in the mixed state of type-II superconductors
Creators: name: Landau, I. L.
name: Keller, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We argue that claims about magnetic field dependence of the magnetic field penetration depth lambda, which were made on the basis of moun-spin-rotation studies of some superconductors, originate from insufficient accuracy of theoretical models employed for the data analysis. We also reanalyze some of already published experimental data and demonstrate that numerical calculations of Brandt [E.H. Brandt, Phys. Rev. B 68, 54506 (2003)] may serve as a reliable and powerful tool for the analysis of the data collected in experiments with conventional superconductors. Furthermore, one can use this approach in order to distinguish between conventional and unconventional superconductors. It is unfortunate that these calculations have practically never been employed for such analyses.
description: 24 pages, 10figures
Bestände zur europäischen und internationalen Arbeit der Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau und Energie (Archiv für soziale Bewegungen, Bochum)
Creators: name: Heith, Holger
Publisher: name: Moving the Social
Year: 2015

description: This is the contribution "Bestände zur europäischen und internationalen Arbeit der Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau und Energie (Archiv für soziale Bewegungen, Bochum)" of MTS 42 (2009).
description: Moving the Social, Vol 42 (2009): Deutsche Gewerkschaften und europäische Integration im 20. Jahrhundert
Additional file 1 of Association of diabetes with atrial fibrillation types: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Alijla, Fadi
name: Buttia, Chepkoech
name: Reichlin, Tobias
name: Razvi, Salman
name: Minder, Beatrice
name: Wilhelm, Matthias
name: Muka, Taulant
name: Franco, Oscar H.
name: Bano, Arjola
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental Material. Appendix A. Supplemental information on search strategy. Appendix B. Adapted scale from the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment scale for cohort studies. Fig. S1. Flowchart for study inclusion. Fig. S2. Funnel plots on the cross-sectional and longitudinal association of diabetes with non-paroxysmal AF (vs paroxysmal AF). Table S1. Classification of AF types, based on the presentation, duration, and spontaneous termination of AF episodes. Table S2. Recruitment setting. Table S3. AF definitions across studies. Table S4. AF monitoring in studies investigating the longitudinal association of diabetes with AF types. Table S5. "Leave one out" sensitivity analysis. Table S6. Sensitivity analyses in the meta-analysis of longitudinal studies investigating the association of diabetes with non-paroxysmal AF (vs paroxysmal AF). Table S7. Quality assessment scale.
The Thermal Feedback Effects on the Temperature Evolution during Reheating
Creators: name: Ming, Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The time dependence of the temperature during the reheating process is studied. We consider the thermal feedback effects of the produced particles on the effective dissipation rate of the inflaton field, which can lead to enhanced production of particles. We parameterize the temperature dependence of the dissipation rate in terms of a Taylor expansion containing the vacuum decay rate and the thermal terms. By solving the Boltzmann equations for the energy densities of the inflaton and radiation, we provide analytic estimates for a general power law dependence on the temperature. In this way we describe the entire reheating process. The maximum temperature of the reheating process and its dependence on model parameters are studied in different cases. The impact of the thermal feedback effects on the expansion history of the universe and the cosmic microwave background (CMB) is discussed. We also discuss the range of validity of our approach.
description: 27 pages, 6 figures
Information content of the parity-violating asymmetry in $^{208}$Pb
Creators: name: Reinhard, Paul-Gerhard
name: Roca-Maza, Xavier
name: Nazarewicz, Witold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The parity violating asymmetry $A_{PV}$ in $^{208}$Pb, recently measured by the PREX-2 collaboration, is studied using modern relativistic (covariant) and non-relativistic energy density functionals. We first assess the theoretical uncertainty on $A_{PV}$ which is intrinsic to the adopted approach. To this end, we use quantified functionals that are able to accommodate our previous knowledge on nuclear observables such as binding energies, charge radii, and the dipole polarizability $α_D$ of $^{208}$Pb. We then add the quantified value of $A_{PV}$ together with $α_D$ to our calibration dataset to optimize new functionals. Based on these results, we predict a neutron skin thickness in $^{208}$Pb $r_\mathrm{skin} =0.19\pm 0.02$\,fm and the symmetry-energy slope $L=54\pm 8$\,MeV. These values are consistent with other estimates based on astrophysical data and are significantly lower than those recently reported using a particular set of relativistic energy density functionals. We also make a prediction for the $A_{PV}$ value in $^{48}$Ca that will be soon available from the CREX measurement.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures
Exploring learner attitudes in multilingual contexts: An empirical investigation at the primary school level
Creators: name: Hofer, Barbara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Recent research highlights the dynamic and complex nature and the situatedness of multilingual development. It emphasises the need for learners to have ample opportunity for interaction in order to progress on their learning trajectories and suggests that positive attitudes and emotions are key to language learning motivation and learning outcomes. Indications are that how children feel about languages and language learning can impact their learning behavior and willingness to engage with a particular L2/Ln. In this paper I investigate how sociolinguistic and educational context and amount of contact with the L2 (and/or other languages) relate to learner attitudes at the primary level. I report on work in progress carried out in variously multilingual settings in South Tyrol with the aim of establishing whether learning in multilingual contexts as opposed to monolingual surroundings has any effect on pupils' attitudes and motivations. To my knowledge no previous studies in South Tyrol have looked into attitudinal factors and/or young learners' beliefs with regards to language(s). The present research seeks to bridge this gap.
การพัฒนาดัชนีชี้วัดความเป็นองค์การแห่งการเรียนรู้ในสถานศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐาน
Creators: name: อารีรักษ์  โพธิวัฒน์
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2556
Subjects: การพัฒนา, ดัชนีชี้วัด, องค์การแห่งการเรียนรู้, สถานศึกษาขั้นพื้นฐาน

description: 3, 32, วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์  มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Phase Transitions in the Coloring of Random Graphs
Creators: name: Zdeborová, Lenka
name: Krzakala, Florent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Computational Complexity (cs.CC)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We consider the problem of coloring the vertices of a large sparse random graph with a given number of colors so that no adjacent vertices have the same color. Using the cavity method, we present a detailed and systematic analytical study of the space of proper colorings (solutions). We show that for a fixed number of colors and as the average vertex degree (number of constraints) increases, the set of solutions undergoes several phase transitions similar to those observed in the mean field theory of glasses. First, at the clustering transition, the entropically dominant part of the phase space decomposes into an exponential number of pure states so that beyond this transition a uniform sampling of solutions becomes hard. Afterward, the space of solutions condenses over a finite number of the largest states and consequently the total entropy of solutions becomes smaller than the annealed one. Another transition takes place when in all the entropically dominant states a finite fraction of nodes freezes so that each of these nodes is allowed a single color in all the solutions inside the state. Eventually, above the coloring threshold, no more solutions are available. We compute all the critical connectivities for Erdos-Renyi and regular random graphs and determine their asymptotic values for large number of colors. Finally, we discuss the algorithmic consequences of our findings. We argue that the onset of computational hardness is not associated with the clustering transition and we suggest instead that the freezing transition might be the relevant phenomenon. We also discuss the performance of a simple local Walk-COL algorithm and of the belief propagation algorithm in the light of our results.
description: 36 pages, 15 figures
The board-president relationship in three British Columbia community colleges
Creators: name: Levin, John S.
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The issue of governance in institutions of higher education has attracted considerable attention in the North American literature. While much has been published concerning the respective roles of the president and the governing board in managing the affairs of colleges and universities, limited attention has been given to the relationship which exists between the two parties. Furthermore, while the importance of the relationship is acknowledged, there has been no systematic research to determine reasons for such a claim. This study examines the board-president relationship in three community colleges in the province of British Columbia and ascertains reasons for its importance. The research framework on which the study is based consists of three major components, the determinants of the board-president relationship, its effects, and the characteristics of the relationship itself. The literature on boards and presidents implies that any relationships which do exist fall into three distinct dimensions, formal, operational, and personal. The three dimensions of the relationship are used in this study as a focal point and conceptual centre around which research questions are designed. The method involves a qualitative-interpretive design which generates both documentary, factual data and perceptual data from two major sources. The sources are institutional and legal documents and in-depth interviews with the presidents and board members from the three institutions. The study largely reveals an understanding of the relationship from the perspective of the participants. The conclusions which emerge from this investigation indicate that the board-president relationship at each college displays characteristics which identify the relationship with the articulated goals, philosophy, and values of each institution and reflects its development. Moreover, as perceived by the participants, the relationship exerts important influence upon the image of the college with both its internal and external community, while reinforcing the values and philosophy of the institution. The research provides a beginning for the development of theory in the area of leadership and management in institutions of post-secondary education. It also offers insights for practitioners concerned with the improvement of their effectiveness in governance, specifically in the colleges in British Columbia. The study has moved beyond current scholarship on the board-president relationship; it has also prepared the groundwork for further research by posing several hypothetical questions which arise from this investigation.
Survey Report on the use of BELLA infrastructure by the digital ecosystem
Creators: name: Grupo Inmark
name: Peñaloza, Eugenia
name: Ursa, Yolanda
name: Ayciriex, Luciana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This report, Deliverable D2.1, presents the findings of a comprehensive survey conducted by the SPIDER project, which works to foster and promote the longstanding EU-LAC collaboration for an inclusive digital transformation. The survey aims to evaluate the current state of the digital ecosystem interconnectivity, as well as the awareness and use of the infrastructure and services provided by BELLA (Building the Europe Link to Latin America and the Caribbean) Infrastructure through the European and Latin America NRENs. To evaluate the potential of BELLA, the survey also explores the technology areas and applications that can take advantage of BELLA to support the digital transformation and identify key barriers to unlocking BELLA's full potential.Conducted across Latin America, the Caribbean, and Europe, the survey analyses the connectivity requirements for daily activities in research and business and the knowledge and connectivity provided by NRENs in both regions. The survey also sought to identify application and technology areas that can benefit from BELLA to support digital transformation and international collaboration. These areas include Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Mobile (5G / 6G / OpenRAN), Blockchain, Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing (HPC), Cybersecurity tools and technologies, Virtual Research Environments (ex. virtual laboratories, simulators, science gateways, data repositories), and Quantum technologies.The findings also revealed the perceived barriers to unlocking BELLA's potential in the short term. The lack of awareness of BELLA is the primary obstacle to maximise BELLA's potential. Budgetary constraints, especially in LAC, and technical limitations pose additional challenges that would require targeted strategies for financial assistance and technical support. Finally, the survey highlights European concerns regarding policy usage and security measures. Addressing these concerns through strategies tailored to different regional contexts is crucial for building trust and ensuring the smooth implementation of BELLA.
Hat der Zugang durch den Musculus pronator quadratus bei der palmaren winkelstabilen Plattenfixation distaler Radiusfrakturen Einfluss auf die Pronationskraft?
Creators: name: Maksimow, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences Medicine

description: Die palmare winkelstabile Plattenosteosynthese der instabilen distalen Radiusfraktur ist zum Versorgungsstandard geworden. Kontrollierte Nachuntersuchungen mit Pronations- und Supinationskraftmessungen im postoperativen Verlauf haben bis dato kaum stattgefunden. Die Studie ging im Besonderen der Frage nach, ob und in welchem Maße sich die Pronationskraft, kurzfristig und mittelfristig, von der palmaren Plattenosteosynthese mit Inzision des Musculus pronator quadratus, beeinflusst zeigt.
ปัจจัยที่ส่งผลต่อคุณภาพการบริการของพยาบาลโรงพยาบาลแห่งหนึ่งในจังหวัดอ่างทอง
Creators: name: ปณิธี  ปานขำ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2556
Subjects: ความฉลาดทางอารมณ์, ทัศนคติต่ออาชีพ, การจัดการคุณภาพการบริการ, คุณภาพการบริการของพยาบาล

description: 3, 32, วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์  มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Additional file 1 of Effectiveness of a fortified drink in improving B vitamin biomarkers in older adults: a controlled intervention trial
Creators: name: Heffernan, Maria
name: Doherty, Leanne C.
name: Hack Mendes, Roberta
name: Clarke, Michelle
name: Hodge, Stephanie
name: Clements, Michelle
name: McAnena, Liadhan
name: Rivelsrud, Mari
name: Ward, Mary
name: Strain, J. J.
name: McNulty, Helene
name: Brennan, Lorraine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Impact of B vitamin drinks on B vitamin biomarkers controlling for baseline homocysteine concentrations. Table S2. B vitamin biomarkers at baseline and end of intervention with the drinks (Per protocol analysis). Table S3. Impact of B vitamin drinks on biomarker status controlling for baseline homocysteine concentrations (per-protocol analysis).
Vortex rings in ferromagnets
Creators: name: Sutcliffe, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Vortex ring solutions are presented for the Landau-Lifshitz equation, which models the dynamics of a three-dimensional ferromagnet. The vortex rings propagate at constant speed along their symmetry axis and are characterized by the integer-valued Hopf charge. They are stable to axial perturbations, but it is demonstrated that an easy axis anisotropy results in an instability to perturbations which break the axial symmetry. The unstable mode corresponds to a migration of spin flips around the vortex ring that leads to a pinching instability and ultimately the collapse of the vortex ring. It is found that this instability does not exist for an isotropic ferromagnet. Similarities between vortex rings in ferromagnets and vortons in cosmology are noted.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
คุณลักษณะของสถาบันการเงินชุมชนที่มีคุณภาพและประสบความสำเร็จ
Creators: name: จุรีวัลย์  ภักดีวุฒิ
Publisher: name: มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม
Year: 2556
Subjects: กองทุนหมู่บ้าน, สถาบันการเงินชุมชน, คุณลักษณะ, คุณภาพ, ปัจจัยแห่งความสำเร็จ

description: 3, 32, วารสารมนุษยศาสตร์และสังคมศาสตร์  มหาวิทยาลัยมหาสารคาม