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Thermodynamics of anisotropic branes
Creators: name: Ávila, Daniel
name: Fernández, Daniel
name: Patiño, Leonardo
name: Trancanelli, Diego
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the thermodynamics of flavor D7-branes embedded in an anisotropic black brane solution of type IIB supergravity. The flavor branes undergo a phase transition between a `Minkowski embedding', in which they lie outside of the horizon, and a `black hole embedding', in which they fall into the horizon. This transition depends on the black hole temperature, its degree of anisotropy, and the mass of the flavor degrees of freedom. It happens either at a critical temperature or at a critical anisotropy. A general lesson we learn from this analysis is that the anisotropy, in this particular realization, induces similar effects as the temperature. In particular, increasing the anisotropy bends the branes more and more into the horizon. Moreover, we observe that the transition becomes smoother for higher anisotropies.
description: 24 pages, 16 figures; v2: 25 pages, discussion of chiral condensate improved, minor changes, references added
Μετα-ανάλυση φαινοτυπικών χαρακτηριστικών σε προϊστορικούς πληθυσμούς της Ευρώπης από δεδομένα παλαιογενετικών αναλύσεων
Creators: name: Κούτρα, Παρασκευή Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Προϊστορική Ευρώπη
Φαινοτυπικά χαρακτηριστικά
Παλαιογενετική
Prehistoric Europe
Phenotypic traits
Paleogenetics

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας ήταν η μελέτη και η παρουσίαση των φαινοτυπικών χαρακτηριστικών των προϊστορικών πληθυσμών της Ευρώπης μέσα από τα διαθέσιμα παλαιογενετικά δεδομένα. Για τον σκοπό αυτό, εξετάστηκαν γενετικοί δείκτες (σημειακοί πολυμορφισμοί-SNPs, διαγραφές βάσεων και αριθμός γονιδιακών αντίγραφων) οι οποίοι έχουν συσχετιστεί με συγκεκριμένα φαινοτυπικά χαρακτηριστικά και για τους οποίους υπήρχαν διαθέσιμα δημοσιευμένα γονοτυπικά δεδομένα. Μέσα από την εξαγωγή των συχνοτήτων σε αυτούς και την παρατήρηση πιθανών μεταβολών μεταξύ των διαφορετικών προϊστορικών περιόδων και πληθυσμών ερευνήθηκαν, επίσης, πιθανά γεγονότα ανθρώπινης προσαρμογής υπό το πρίσμα δράσης των εξελικτικών δυνάμεων όπως η φυσική επιλογή ή η μετανάστευση (γενετική ροή). Ακόμη, παρουσιάστηκε η γενετική βάση και τέλος, η εξέλιξη των υπό εξέταση φαινοτυπικών χαρακτηριστικών στο πέρας της προϊστορικής περιόδου στην Ευρώπη. Μέσα από την συγκεκριμένη ανάλυση κατορθώσαμε να αποτυπώσουμε συγκεντρωτικά, ως ένα βαθμό, ορισμένα από τα φαινοτυπικά χαρακτηριστικά των προϊστορικών πληθυσμών της Ευρωπαϊκής ηπείρου, όπως προκύπτουν από τα δεδομένα παλαιογενετικών αναλύσεων. Καθώς επίσης και να εξετάσουμε την ισχύ ορισμένων θεωριών σχετικά με την εξέλιξη συγκεκριμένων φαινοτυπικών χαρακτηριστικών.
description: The aim of the present thesis was the study and the presentation of phenotypic traits of the European prehistoric populations through available paleogenetic data. For this purpose, were examined genetic markers (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms/SNPs, deletions and gene copy number variation/CNV), which have been correlated with specific phenotypic traits and for which we have available published genotype data. Through the analysis of frequencies and their alteration between different periods and populations were investigated possible adaptation events through the action of evolutionary forces such as natural selection or migration (genetic flow). In addition, the genetic basis and in the end, the evolution of the examined phenotypic traits during the prehistoric period on the European continent was presented. Through this analysis, we have presented in the aggregate, some of the phenotypic traits of the European prehistoric populations, as they emerge through the available paleogenetic data. As well, to investigate the validity of certain theories about the evolutionary history of specific phenotypic traits.
description: Σε συνεργασία με: Ιστορίας και Εθνολογίας (Δημοκρίτειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θράκης)
New quantum number for the many-electron Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian
Creators: name: Komorovsky, Stanislav
name: Repisky, Michal
name: Bučinský, Lukáš
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By breaking the spin symmetry in the relativistic domain, a powerful tool in physical sciences was lost. In this work, we examine an alternative of spin symmetry for systems described by the many-electron Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian. We show that the square of many-electron operator $\mathcal{K}_+$, defined as a sum of individual single-electron time-reversal (TR) operators, is a linear Hermitian operator which commutes with the Dirac-Coulomb Hamiltonian in a finite Fock subspace. In contrast to the square of a standard unitary many-electron TR operator $\mathcal{K}$, the $\mathcal{K}^2_+$ has a rich eigenspectrum having potential to substitute spin symmetry in the relativistic domain. We demonstrate that $\mathcal{K}_+$ is connected to $\mathcal{K}$ through an exponential mapping, in the same way as spin operators are mapped to the spin rotational group. Consequently, we call $\mathcal{K}_+$ the generator of the many-electron TR symmetry. By diagonalizing the operator $\mathcal{K}^2_+$ in the basis of Kramers-restricted Slater determinants, we introduce the relativistic variant of configuration state functions (CSF), denoted as Kramers CSF. A new quantum number associated with $\mathcal{K}^2_+$ has potential to be used in many areas, for instance, (a) to design effective spin Hamiltonians for electron spin resonance spectroscopy of heavy-element containing systems; (b) to increase efficiency of methods for the solution of many-electron problems in relativistic computational chemistry and physics; (c) to define Kramers contamination in unrestricted density functional and Hartree--Fock theory as a relativistic analog of the spin contamination in the nonrelativistic domain.
description: 15 pages, published in Phys. Rev. A, one FORTRAN program; Changes: minor text formatting, add supplemental material as Appendix I, add comparison with three open-shell electrons to Sec. VII last paragraph
Διερεύνηση στάσεων των νηπιαγωγών απέναντι στην αποτελεσματικότητα της εξ’ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευσης
Creators: name: Λύμπου, Δήμητρα Γεωργίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Τηλεκπαίδευση, νηπιαγωγεία, ασύγχρονη εκπαίδευση
Νηπιαγωγεία
Ασύγχρονη εκπαίδευση
Distance education
Kindergarten
Asynchronous education

description: Η τεχνολογία στη σύγχρονη κοινωνία διαδραματίζει πολύ σημαντικό ρόλο, σε όλες τις εκφάνσεις της ζωής των ανθρώπων. Μέχρι την πρινCovid-19 εποχή, η εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευση πραγματοποιούνταν σπάνια με τη σύγχρονη μορφή της, ενώ πιο συχνά πραγματοποιούνταν με την ασύγχρονη μορφή της και κυρίως στην τριτοβάθμια εκπαίδευση. Από την έναρξη της πανδημίας και ύστερα, η εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευση για δύο περίπου χρόνια, μετεξελίχθηκε στην βασικότερη μορφή εκπαίδευσης. Σκοπός της εργασίας αυτής είναι να διερευνήσει την αποτελεσματικότητα της εξ αποστάσεως εκπαίδευσης, τους περιορισμούς που ενέχει ο συγκεκριμένος τρόπος εκπαίδευσης, το ρόλο της τεχνολογίας και τις στάσεις των νηπιαγωγών για την τηλεκπαίδευση. Πραγματοποιήθηκε εμπειρική έρευνα με τη χρήση ερωτηματολογίου σε 71 Έλληνες Νηπιαγωγούς που κλήθηκαν να διδάξουν εξ΄αποστάσεως τους μαθητές τους κατά την περίοδο της πανδημίας. Βρέθηκε ότι πολλοί εκπαιδευτικοί και σχολικοί οργανισμοί αισθάνονται πως δεν ήταν προετοιμασμένοι για την διαδικασία της τηλεκπαίδευσης, προτίμησαν τον συνδυασμό σύγχρονης και ασύγχρονης εκπαίδευσης και, εν τέλει, θεώρησαν ότι η τηλεκπαίδευση στέφθηκε με επιτυχία. Βρέθηκε, επίσης, ότι όσο περισσότερο πίστευαν οι εκπαιδευτικοί πως οι ίδιοι και το σχολείο τους ήταν προετοιμασμένοι για την νέα εκπαιδευτική πραγματικότητα, τόσο περισσότερο συμφωνούν πως η τηλεκπαίδευση ωφέλησε τους μαθητές και τους νηπιαγωγούς.
description: Technology in modern society plays a very important role in all aspects of human life. However, up until the break out of Covid-19, distance education was rarely carried out in its modern form, while more often it was carried out in its asynchronous form and mainly in higher education. From the beginning of the pandemic onwards, distance education for about two years, evolved into the most basic form of education. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of distance education, the limitations of this method of education, the role of technology and the attitudes of kindergarten teachers towards distance learning. An empirical survey was conducted using a questionnaire on 71 Greek Kindergarten Teachers who were called to teach their students at a distance during the pandemic period. It was found that many educators and school organizations felt that they were not prepared for the process of distance learning, preferred the combination of modern and asynchronous education and, in the end, considered that distance education was crowned with success. It was also found that the more teachers believed that they and their school were prepared for the new educational reality, the more they agreed that e-learning benefited students and kindergarten teachers.
Factors related voluntary mv and counseling and testing in an Urban Community of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Mohammed, Fahmi
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2000

description: A cross-sectional study was carried out from March 2000 to Apr il 2000 among the age group of 15-49 year populmi on of Harar town. to determine the factors related with intention of Voluntary HIV co unse ling and testing (VCT). A multi-stage sampling method was used to select 720 stud y subj ects fl'Om residents of Harar town. Both quantitative and quali tative data co ll ection methods were utili zed. More than three-fourth (85,4%) of the study subjects claimed to have inte ntion of hav ing VCT; and about three-fou rth (73.9%) had intention of asking partner(s) to seek for VCT. On mu lti-va riate analysis condom use (OR=2J), not initiating sexual practice (OR=2,4), positive attitude (OR= 104) and sa lient belief (OR=1.2) towards VCT were positive predi ctors of intention of having VCT. Being never married (OR= 1.9), pos itive attitude (OR= 1.2), subj ective norm (OR= I J) and sal ient belief (OR= 13) towards VCT were positive predictors of intention of aski ng partner(s) to get VCT. On gender based multi-vari ate analys is being never married (OR=23) was sign ificant pred ictor on ly among male subj ects and not initiat ing sexual practice (OR=4. 7) was sign ifi ca nt predictor only among female subj ects. Confidential HI Vtesting and face-to-face counseling by phys icians, trained persons and religious leaders were fo und to be the most preferred method of service delivery. Majority of su bj ects could afford to pay less th an 10 birr for the VCT service. The major reasons identifi ed for not having intention of VCT were fear of posit ive resu lt and stigma attached to AIDS. As cultural norms and attitude towards VCT have sign ificant impact on acceptance of VCT, program implementers shou ld address the issue by involvi ng community leaders and using community and cultural gatherings to advocate benefi ts of VCT, to reduce fear of pos itive resu lt and stigma attached to AIDS. To expand the service to the community at large cost issue should be well addressed.
Some oxidation, cycloaddition and rearrangement reactions of 1-pyrroline-1-oxides
Creators: name: Durie, Alexander.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
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ผลของการจัดการเรียนรู้เพศศึกษาโดยประยุกต์รูปแบบโมเดลเลิฟและทฤษฎีความสามารถของตนเองเพื่อสร้างเสริมความรอบรู้ทางสุขภาพเกี่ยวกับเรื่องเพศของนักเรียนระดับชั้นมัธยมศึกษาตอนต้น
Creators: name: ภาสกร ชาญจิราวดี
Publisher: name: กองโรคเอดส์และโรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์ กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2024
Subjects: ความรอบรู้ทางสุขภาพเกี่ยวกับเรื่องเพศ
การจัดการเรียนรู้เพศศึกษา
โมเดลเลิฟ

description: วารสารโรคเอดส์, 36, 2, 57-67
Ich. Du. Wir. - Begegnung in Bewegung Integrative psychomotorische Förderung eines sozial unsicheren Kindes
Creators: name: Saro, Barbara
name: Wenk, Miriam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherapie
Bachelorarbeit

description: Soziale Unsicherheit ist eine unauffällige Form der Sozialen Inkompetenz und stellt eine ernstzunehmende Entwicklungsgefährdung dar. Diese Einzelfallstudie befasst sich im Rahmen der Handlungsforschung mit der Förderung Sozialer Kompetenzen. Ein betroffenes Kind wird im Schulsetting integrativ gefördert. Dabei wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Veränderungen des Sozialverhaltens aufgrund von Mimik, Gestik, Handlungstendenzen und vokalen Äusserungen in relevanten sozialen Situationen sichtbar sind. Videobasierte Beobachtungen zu Beginn und am Ende der Intervention sowie Beobachtungen der Lehrperson im Schulalltag werden mittels qualitativen Verfahren ausgewertet. Die Ergebnisse zeigen eine positive Veränderung bezüglich des Sozialverhaltens und lassen interessante Schlussfolgerungen für die psychomotorische Praxis zu.
Bagger-Witten line bundles on moduli spaces of elliptic curves
Creators: name: Gu, W.
name: Sharpe, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we discuss Bagger-Witten line bundles over moduli spaces of SCFTs. We review how in general they are `fractional' line bundles, not honest line bundles, twisted on triple overlaps. We discuss the special case of moduli spaces of elliptic curves in detail. There, the Bagger-Witten line bundle does not exist as an ordinary line bundle, but rather is necessarily fractional. As a fractional line bundle, it is nontrivial (though torsion) over the uncompactified moduli stack, and its restriction to the interior, excising corners with enhanced stabilizers, is also fractional. It becomes an honest line bundle on a moduli stack defined by a quotient of the upper half plane by a metaplectic group, rather than SL(2,Z). We review and compare to results of recent work arguing that well-definedness of the worldsheet metric implies that the Bagger-Witten line bundle admits a flat connection (which includes torsion bundles as special cases), and give general arguments on the existence of universal structures on moduli spaces of SCFTs, in which superconformal deformation parameters are promoted to nondynamical fields ranging over the SCFT moduli space.
description: 33 pages, LaTeX; v2: typos fixed; v3: material on metaplectic quotient presentation added; v4: more typos fixed
ผลของโปรแกรมการจัดการตนเองต่อพฤติกรรมการจัดการตนเอง ปริมาณเชื้อเอชไอวีในเลือด และระดับซีดีโฟร์ของผู้ติดเชื้อเอชไอวี
Creators: name: ภาณุพงศ์ จันทโรจน์
Publisher: name: กองโรคเอดส์และโรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์ กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2024
Subjects: ผู้ติดเชื้อเอชไอวี
โปรแกรมการจัดการตนเอง
พฤติกรรมการจัดการตนเอง
ปริมาณเชื้อเอชไอวีในเลือด
ระดับซีดีโฟร์

description: วารสารโรคเอดส์, 36, 2, 68-81
Kinder aus suchtbelasteten Familien in der Psychomotoriktherapie
Creators: name: Gähler, Mirjam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherapie
Bachelorarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit befasst sich mit der Fragestellung, welche Beeinträchtigungen Kinder aus suchtbelasteten Familien im sozio-emotionalen Bereich aufzeigen und wie diese Kinder speziell im Alter zwischen sechs und zwölf Jahren mittels Psychomotoriktherapie gefördert werden können. Die Basis der Arbeit bildet eine Literaturrecherche. Diese wird durch die Fallanalyse einer suchtbelasteten Familie ergänzt. Darin werden Störken und Defizite der Kinder gemäss der Theorie beschrieben, aber auch individuelle Merkmale aufgezeigt. Für die Unterstützung entsprechender Kinder werden geeignete Ansätze der Psychomotoriktherapie - handlungsorientiert, kindzentriert und systemisch-konstruktivistisch - beschrieben. Die Erkenntnisse dieser Arbeit werden in Form von Rahmenbedingungen, Zielen sowie therapeutischen Interventionen und Inhalten für die Praxis dargelegt.
Holographic Isotropisation in Gauss-Bonnet Gravity
Creators: name: Andrade, Tomas
name: Casalderrey-Solana, Jorge
name: Ficnar, Andrej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study holographic isotropisation of homogeneous, strongly coupled, non-Abelian plasmas in Gauss-Bonnet gravity with a negative cosmological constant. We focus on small values of the Gauss-Bonnet coupling parameter $λ_{GB}$ and linearise the equations of motion around a time-dependent background solution with $λ_{GB}=0$. We numerically solve the linearised equations and show that the entire time evolution of the pressure anisotropy can be well approximated by the linear in $λ_{GB}$ corrections to the quasinormal mode expansion, even in the cases of high anisotropy. We finally show that, quite generally, the time evolution of the pressure anisotropy with the Gauss-Bonnet term is approximately {\it shifted} with respect to the evolution without it, with the sign of the shift being directly related to the sign of the $λ_{GB}$ parameter. This suggests that finite coupling corrections generically {\it increase} the isotropisation time of strongly coupled plasmas.
description: 31 pages, 6 figures
The Effect of "Marriage by Abduction" on Child Survival in Meskan And Mareko District, Butajira, Ethiopia
Creators: name: Kebede, Zelalem
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 2002

description: A retrospective cohort study to assess the effect of "Marriage by Abduction" (MBA) on child survival was conducted from November 2001 to January 2002 in Meskan and Mareko District, Gurage Zone, Southern Nations Nationalities and peoples Regional Government (SNNPR). Data were collected using an anonymous structured questionnaire. A census has been conducted prior to the actual sample size determination and it produced a prevalence of 6.32% for "Marriage by Abduction" in the total population. A total of 1105 married women participated in the study. The ratio of marriage with and with out abduction was 1:3. Out of the total sample 954(86.3%) were from rural peasant associations(PA) and151(13.7%)from urban dweller association (UDA). Of all respondents 899(81.4%) were Muslims and 206(18.6%) were Christians. Majority of respondents 938(84.9%) were illiterate and 939(85%) were housewives by occupation. Of the total sample 244(22.1%) were married by abduction(exposed) and 861(77.9%) married with out abduction(non-exposed). The mean age of abduction was found to be 17 + 2.5SD. Among the abducted groups 17(7.0%) and among the non abducted 50(5.84%) experienced still birth in their life, and it was found that statistically not significant in biviariate analysis (p>0.502) Eighteen (7.4%) of the abducted and 71(8.2%) of the nonabducted women reported history of death of neonate with in 7 days after birth and it was found that statistically not significant in biviariate analysis(p>0.9305). Sixty seven (27.4%) and 235(27.2%) among those married with and with out abduction respectively, VI reported life time Infant death. The proportion of polygamous marriage in the abducted group was found to be 67 (27.5%) as compared to 212 (24.6%) in the non-abducted. In a focus group discussion conducted with both groups of women who married by or without abduction all of the participants condemned the practice of abduction, and reported that reconciliation by local elders after the act of abduction is one of the main reasons for the perpetuation of the problem. Infant or neonatal mortality was not found to be associated with "Marriage by Abduction" after controlling for possible confounders with logistic regression. Even if dealing with deep-rooted cultural problem is challenging, in this study it is recommended that sensitization and awareness creation addressing each segment of the population would help in alleviating the problem
ผลของโปรแกรมการสร้างเสริมความรอบรู้ด้านโรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์ร่วมกับแรงสนับสนุนทางสังคมต่อความตั้งใจในการป้องกันโรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์ ในนักเรียนชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 2 จังหวัดนนทบุรี
Creators: name: เบญจมาศ จำปาหอม
Publisher: name: กองโรคเอดส์และโรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์ กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2024
Subjects: ความตั้งใจในการป้องกันโรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์
ความรอบรู้ด้านโรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์
แรงสนับสนุนทางสังคมจากเพื่อน

description: วารสารโรคเอดส์, 36, 2, 82-95
Hubble parameter measurement constraints on the redshift of the deceleration-acceleration transition, dynamical dark energy, and space curvature
Creators: name: Farooq, Omer
name: Madiyar, Foram
name: Crandall, Sara
name: Ratra, Bharat
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compile an updated list of 38 measurements of the Hubble parameter $H(z)$ between redshifts $0.07 \leq z \leq 2.36$ and use them to place constraints on model parameters of constant and time-varying dark energy cosmological models, both spatially flat and curved. We use five models to measure the redshift of the cosmological deceleration-acceleration transition, $z_{\rm da}$, from these $H(z)$ data. Within the error bars, the measured $z_{\rm da}$ are insensitive to the model used, depending only on the value assumed for the Hubble constant $H_0$. The weighted mean of our measurements is $z_{\rm da} = 0.72 \pm 0.05\ (0.84 \pm 0.03)$ for $H_0 = 68 \pm 2.8\ (73.24 \pm 1.74)$ km s$^{-1}$ Mpc$^{-1}$ and should provide a reasonably model-independent estimate of this cosmological parameter. The $H(z)$ data are consistent with the standard spatially-flat $Λ$CDM cosmological model but do not rule out non-flat models or dynamical dark energy models.
description: 7 Tables and 4 Figures, ApJ, in press
Propagation of impulse noise
Creators: name: Cramond, Andrew John.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Enhancement of hopping conductivity by spontaneous fractal ordering of low-energy sites
Creators: name: Chen, Tianran
name: Skinner, Brian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Variable-range hopping conductivity has long been understood in terms of a canonical prescription for relating the single-particle density of states to the temperature-dependent conductivity. Here we demonstrate that this prescription breaks down in situations where a large and long-ranged random potential develops. In particular, we examine a canonical model of a completely compensated semiconductor, and we show that at low temperatures hopping proceeds along self-organized, low-dimensional subspaces having fractal dimension $d = 2$. We derive and study numerically the spatial structure of these subspaces, as well as the conductivity and density of states that result from them. One of our prominent findings is that fractal ordering of low energy sites greatly enhances the hopping conductivity, and allows Efros-Shklovskii type conductivity to persist up to unexpectedly high temperatures.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures; published version with added references and discussion
ข้อเสนอเชิงนโยบาย : การตรวจคัดกรองเชื้อเอชไอวีสำหรับผู้ป่วยโรคฝีดาษวานรในกรุงเทพมหานคร
Creators: name: ชาโล สาณศิลปิน
Publisher: name: กองโรคเอดส์และโรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์ กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2024
Subjects: การตรวจคัดกรอง
เอชไอวี
ฝีดาษวานร
กรุงเทพมหานคร

description: วารสารโรคเอดส์, 36, 2, 96-107
ความตั้งใจในการรับวัคซีนไข้ทรพิษเพื่อป้องกันโรคฝีดาษวานรของกลุ่มชายรักชายในพื้นที่กรุงเทพมหานคร
Creators: name: พัชนีย์ เพลินพร้อม
Publisher: name: กองโรคเอดส์และโรคติดต่อทางเพศสัมพันธ์ กรมควบคุมโรค
Year: 2024
Subjects: โรคฝีดาษวานร
การรับวัคซีน
ความตั้งใจ
ชายรักชาย
กรุงเทพมหานคร

description: วารสารโรคเอดส์, 36, 2, 108-120
Einander verstehen Gesprächsanalyse über Hilfen und Strategien zwischen Menschen mit und ohne Sprachverständnisschwierigkeiten
Creators: name: Scherrer, Sandra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: Logopädie
Bachelorarbeit

description: Viele Faktoren können zu Missverständnissen führen. Diese Arbeit vergleicht vier Gespräche eines jungen Mannes mit Sprachverständnisschwierigkeiten mit vier verschiedenen Gesprächspartnern. Untersucht werden Hilfsmöglichkeiten, Auswirkungen aufs Sprachverständnis, Ausweichstrategien und Reaktionen. Die Gespräche wurden audiovisuell erfasst und transkribiert. Danach wurden die erhobenen Daten auf verbaler, paraverbaler und nonverbaler Ebene analysiert und theoriegeleitet kategorisiert. Die Hilfen zeigen keine deutlichen Unterschiede zwischen nahestehenden und unbekannten Gesprächspartnern. Missverständnisse sind bei beiden Gruppen unvermeidlich, den Bekannten gelingt die Auflösung jedoch besser. Weiter verweisen die Resultate auf den Gebrauch verschiedener Strategien, die abweichende Reaktionen auslösen. Die Notwendigkeit des bewussten Einsatzes von Hilfen und Strategien wird diskutiert.
An Investigation into the Chained Woman Incident in China.docx
Creators: name: Yang, Yinxia
name: Yang, yinxia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440504
subject: Gender relations
classificationCode: 470202
subject: Asian cultural studies
classificationCode: 470206
subject: Cultural studies of nation and region
classificationCode: 470208
subject: Culture, representation and identity

description: This article investigates the Chained Woman Incident in China, a shocking case of human trafficking and abuse, and its connection to deep-seated gender inequality rooted in traditional Chinese values. Through an analysis of this incident alongside selected works of modern Chinese literature, the article reveals the persistence of these injustices and argues for the critical role of citizenship education in promoting women's rights and social change in China.
Tr aini ng of primary School Teachers on lieall h and it s Effect In School Heallh Education
Creators: name: Aschenaki, Kelema
Publisher: name: National Academic Digital Repository of Ethiopia
Year: 1994

description: A retlospectjv~-cohort study ~'ns cal'j'jed out in NOl'theaslern Ethiopia to aSSeSS the impact of htoalth training of primarv school teachels on health knowledge and practice of their students with regard to personal hygiene and the en\'ironmental heallh conditions of the school s . The required information to .• ssess kllO\\IL!dge was collected using il pl'etcstcll questjonnai]'c. Observation formats were cleve loped tc. asSuss the hygienic s t atus of the students and L!n\ironmental health situations of the schools. Focus group discussions "ere conducted wi th the trained teachers on 110" to Improve the school health education ac[jvities. Data analysis was carried out us i ng EPI-INFO version 5 and S\S complltuT stat isticill packages. The results showed improvement in the total mean ~:nowledge score of teachers who recei\'ed training compared to the control groups If-stat. 3.4-. P:0.041 . Though the diffe"cncc was not statistically signifjcailt. Students of tIle trained leachers al..;,o showed a hjgher mean knowledge score compared to hoth control-l -"ind control-2 groups P : <0.0011. The ,lean il.'"gicn;c ~core of'students of the trained teachers \\as fuund to be higher comparctl to the students in the comparison gl'OUPS, II' C 0.0011. The environmental hectlth status of the schools \ritl! trained lcacile,', WII> better than the SCllools without t"3ined teachers. \' l I The stud)" I~i.ls deJ!lonstrated the po~iti\re ilnpact tll[lt training school teachers h,tn" in impro\'ing the health kno\l'leJge and pract ice of the sehae)l communi t.,. RecomJTI(;ndation'S arc gi\en regarding further training of school teachers in health alollg \l'ith the improvement of "choal sanitar, facilities alla the inclusion of health education in primary school curriculum.
D7.3 Topical training and train‐the‐facilitators session concepts and contents
Creators: name: Mergaert, Lut
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Gender training
Capacity building
Train the facilitators

description: This document contains the Topical training and train‐the‐facilitators session concepts and contents (D7.3) and has been compiled by the WP7 leader Yellow Window (YW). It is an output of Task 7.2 ‐ Development and delivery of adequate capacity‐building and training activities (M4‐M42) and presents the concepts and contents of the in‐person train‐the‐facilitators’ trainings delivered at consortium level. The training contents are presented in the form of detailed scripts, used by the trainers to deliver the capacity‐building activities, and including practical guidance about how to interact with trainees and which supporting material to use.
The hydrochemistry of the Gippsland lakes and their inflowing streams
Creators: name: Bek, P. .
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

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Parallele numerische Verfahren zur quantitativen Analyse logistischer Systeme
Creators: name: Fischer, Markus
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Asynchrone Iterationen
subject: Quantitative Analyse
subject: Logistik
subject: Markov-Ketten
subject: 004

description: In der vorliegenden Arbeit wird ein numerisches Verfahren zur Lösung sehr großer Markov- Ketten vorgestellt und seine prinzipielle Eignung und Performance experimentell untersucht. Das Verfahren basiert auf hierarchischen und asynchronen Iterationen, nutzt eine hierarchische Kronecker-Darstellung zur Darstellung der Markov-Kette und ist auf einer parallelen Rechenarchitektur mit verteiltem Speicher implementiert. Die Arbeit dokumentiert die Lösung von Markov-Ketten mit bis zu 900 Millionen Zuständen, die aus dem Anwendungsfeld der Logistik resultieren.
Single- and multi-objective evolutionary design optimization assisted by gaussian random field metamodels
Creators: name: Emmerich, Michael T. M.
Publisher: name: Technische Universität Dortmund
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Numerical optimization
subject: Multicriteria optimization
subject: Computer experiments
subject: Evolutionary algorithms
subject: Kriging metamodels
subject: 004

description: In this thesis numerical optimization methods for single- and multi-objective design optimization with time-consuming computer experiments are studied in theory and practise. We show that the assistance by metamodeling techniques (or: surrogates) can significantly accelerate evolutionary (multi-objective) optimization algorithms (E(M)OA) in the presence of time consuming evaluations. A further increase of robustness can be achieved by taking confidence information for the imprecise evaluations into account. Gaussian random field metamodels, also referred to as Kriging techniques, can provide such confidence information. The confidence information is used to figure out ‘white spots’ in the functional landscape to be explored. The thesis starts with a detailed discussion of computational aspects related to the Kriging algorithm. Then, algorithms for optimization with single objectives, constraints and multiple objectives are introduced. For the latter, with the S-metric selection EMOA (SMS-EMOA) a new powerful algorithm for Pareto optimization is introduced, which outperforms established techniques on standard benchmarks. The concept of a filter is introduced to couple E(M)OA with metamodeling techniques. Various filter concepts are compared, both by means of deducing their properties theoretically and by experiments on artificial landscapes. For the latter studies we propose new analytical indicators, like the inversion metric and the recall/precision measure. Moreover, sufficient conditions for global convergence in probability are established. Finally the practical benefit of the new techniques is demonstrated by solving several industrial optimization problems, including airfoil optimization, solidification process design, metal forming, and electromagnetic compatibility design and comparing the results to those obtained by standard algorithms.
Optical polarization of high-energy BL Lac objects
Creators: name: Hovatta, T.
name: Lindfors, E.
name: Blinov, D.
name: Pavlidou, V.
name: Nilsson, K.
name: Kiehlmann, S.
name: Angelakis, E.
name: Ramazani, V. Fallah
name: Liodakis, I.
name: Myserlis, I.
name: Panopoulou, G. V.
name: Pursimo, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the optical polarization properties of high-energy BL Lac objects using data from the RoboPol blazar monitoring program and the Nordic Optical Telescope. We wish to understand if there are differences in the BL Lac objects that are detected with the current-generation TeV instruments compared to those that have not yet been detected. The mean polarization fraction of the TeV-detected BL Lacs is 5% while the non-TeV sources show a higher mean polarization fraction of 7%. This difference in polarization fraction disappears when the dilution by the unpolarized light of the host galaxy is accounted for. The TeV sources show somewhat lower fractional polarization variability amplitudes than the non-TeV sources. Also the fraction of sources with a smaller spread in the Q/I - U/I -plane and a clumped distribution of points away from the origin, possibly indicating a preferred polarization angle, is larger in the TeV than in the non-TeV sources. These differences between TeV and non-TeV samples seems to arise from differences between intermediate and high spectral peaking sources instead of the TeV detection. When the EVPA variations are studied, the rate of EVPA change is similar in both samples. We detect significant EVPA rotations in both TeV and non-TeV sources, showing that rotations can occur in high spectral peaking BL Lac objects when the monitoring cadence is dense enough. Our simulations show that we cannot exclude a random walk origin for these rotations. These results indicate that there are no intrinsic differences in the polarization properties of the TeV-detected and non-TeV-detected high-energy BL Lac objects. This suggests that the polarization properties are not directly related to the TeV-detection, but instead the TeV loudness is connected to the general flaring activity, redshift, and the synchrotron peak location. (Abridged)
description: 13 pages, 10 figures + Appendix with 48 polarization curves. Accepted for publication in A&A
Quasiparticle Excitations in the Superconducting State of FeSe Probed by Thermal Hall Conductivity in the Vicinity of the BCS-BEC Crossover
Creators: name: Watashige, Tatsuya
name: Arsenijević, Stevan
name: Yamashita, Takuya
name: Terazawa, Daiki
name: Onishi, Takafumi
name: Opherden, Lars
name: Kasahara, Shigeru
name: Tokiwa, Yoshifumi
name: Kasahara, Yuichi
name: Shibauchi, Takasada
name: von Löhneysen, Hilbert
name: Wosnitza, Jochen
name: Matsuda, Yuji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: There is growing evidence that the superconducting semimetal FeSe ($T_c\sim8$ K) is in the crossover regime between weak-coupling Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer (BCS) and strong-coupling Bose-Einstein-condensate (BEC) limits. We report on longitudinal and transverse thermal conductivities, $κ_{xx}$ and $κ_{xy}$, respectively, in magnetic fields up to 20 T. The field dependences of $κ_{xx}$ and $κ_{xy}$ imply that a highly anisotropic small superconducting gap forms at the electron Fermi-surface pocket whereas a more isotropic and larger gap forms at the hole pocket. Below $\sim1.0$ K, both $κ_{xx}$ and $κ_{xy}$ exhibit distinct anomalies (kinks) at the upper critical field $H_{c2}$ and at a field $H^*$ slightly below $H_{c2}$. The analysis of the thermal Hall angle ($κ_{xy}/κ_{xx}$) indicates a change of the quasiparticle scattering rate at $H^*$. These results provide strong support to the previous suggestion that above $H^*$ a distinct field-induced superconducting phase emerges with an unprecedented large spin imbalance.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, to be published in JPSJ
Theodore Monk - paybook
Creators: name: :Unav
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Military paraphernalia
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1021354
subject: Soldiers
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1125233
subject: Monk, Theodore
subject: World War (1914-1918)
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1180746

description: An Officer's Advance paybook used by Theodore Monk during his service in France in World War I as part of the 54th Canadian Infantry Battalion between 1916 and 1917. Shows the amount of pay assigned to him was $85 per month. Biography: Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Benning Monk, well-known Victoria soldier and realtor was born in Winnipeg in 1884. In 1907 he enlisted with the active militia and in 1908 he became a gunner with the 13th Battery, Canadian Field Artillery (Manitoba Regiment). He turned to law when defective eyesight barred him from the permanent army then left that as "tedious". He followed his next employer to Victoria in 1908 and started work in the city engineer's department. His real estate career started with Pemberton & Sons, but he soon founded his own firm with Roger Monteith, which was responsible for forming several sub-divisions. He also was interested in developing Clo-ose as a resort area, but a change in the government planning halted the scheme. In the First World War he started service with the 54th Battalion, and fought in Vimy Ridge. Working between the wars as a realtor, he became Commanding Officer of the 5th Regiment. He was Commanding Officer of the Cadet Training Camp on the site of the present campus from 1940-41. After his Gordon Head post he became a liason officer of the U.S. Army from 1942-44. From 1930 until his death in 1959 Colonel Monk campaigned actively for a uniquely Canadian flag: designing flags, writing to M.P.'s and appealing to the general public.
An Investigation into the Chained Woman Incident in China.docx
Creators: name: Yang, Yinxia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 440504
subject: Gender relations

description: This article investigates the Chained Woman Incident in China, a shocking case of human trafficking and abuse, and its connection to deep-seated gender inequality rooted in traditional Chinese values. Through an analysis of this incident alongside selected works of modern Chinese literature, the article reveals the persistence of these injustices and argues for the critical role of citizenship education in promoting women's rights and social change in China.
Διερεύνηση προηγούμενου ψυχιατρικού ιστορικού σε ασθενείς με αγγειακό εγκεφαλικό επεισόδιο λόγω νόσου μικρών αγγείων
Creators: name: Μητκάνη, Καλυψώ Αναστασίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Ισχαιμικό αγγειακό εγκεφαλικό επεισόδιο
Κατάθλιψη
Νόσος μικρών αγγείων
Ιschemic stroke
Depression
Small vessel disease

description: Τα κενωτοπιώδη έμφρακτα είναι τα αγγειακά εγκεφαλικά επεισόδια (ΑΕΕ) στα οποία αποφράσσονται μικρά αγγειακά στελέχη και είναι συχνά σε ασθενείς με σακχαρώδη διαβήτη, αρτηριακή υπέρταση και δυσλιπιδαιμία. Η μείζων καταθλιπτική διαταραχή ανήκει στις διαταραχές της διάθεσης και εμφανίζεται στο 3.8% του γενικού πληθυσμού και στο 5.7% των ηλικιωμένων σύμφωνα με τον Παγκόσμιο Οργανισμό Υγείας. Στην παρούσα εργασία διερευνάται η παρουσία κατάθλιψης ή άλλης ψυχιατρικής διαταραχής, πριν την εμφάνιση του εγκεφαλικού και η πιθανή χρονολογική τους συσχέτιση και η σχέση με το φύλο. 21 ασθενείς με οξύ ισχαιμικό ΑΕΕ αξιολογήθηκαν με απευθείας συνέντευξη και πλήρη καταγραφή των κλινικοδημογραφικών χαρακτηριστικών και του ατομικού-κληρονομικού ιατρικού και ψυχιατρικού αναμνηστικού. Λήφθηκαν επίσης πληροφορίες σχετικά με την πρότερη του ΑΕΕ κατάσταση και διάθεση του ασθενούς από κάποιο άτομο που διαβιούσε μαζί του κατόπιν έγγραφης έγκρισης του ιδίου. Προέκυψε πως το 47,61% (10/21) των ασθενών παρουσίαζε συμπτώματα ήπιας έως σοβαρής καταθλιπτικής διαταραχής πριν την εμφάνιση του ισχαιμικού ΑΕΕ με το 100% των οποίων να λαμβάνει αντικαταθλιπτική αγωγή με αναστολείς επαναπρόσληψης σεροτονίνης ή βενζοδιαζεπίνες. Η μέση ηλικία έναρξης της κατάθλιψης ήταν τα 53,14 έτη με σταθερά απόκλισης 10,33. Από τους ασθενείς αυτούς με pre-stroke κατάθλιψη το 90% (9 ασθενείς) ήταν γυναίκες και το 10% (1 ασθενής) άνδρες.
description: Τα κενωτοπιώδη έμφρακτα είναι τα αγγειακά εγκεφαλικά επεισόδια (ΑΕΕ) στα οποία αποφράσσονται μικρά αγγειακά στελέχη και είναι συχνά σε ασθενείς με σακχαρώδη διαβήτη, αρτηριακή υπέρταση και δυσλιπιδαιμία. Η μείζων καταθλιπτική διαταραχή ανήκει στις διαταραχές της διάθεσης και εμφανίζεται στο 3.8% του γενικού πληθυσμού και στο 5.7% των ηλικιωμένων σύμφωνα με τον Παγκόσμιο Οργανισμό Υγείας. Στην παρούσα εργασία διερευνάται η παρουσία κατάθλιψης ή άλλης ψυχιατρικής διαταραχής, πριν την εμφάνιση του εγκεφαλικού και η πιθανή χρονολογική τους συσχέτιση και η σχέση με το φύλο. 21 ασθενείς με οξύ ισχαιμικό ΑΕΕ αξιολογήθηκαν με απευθείας συνέντευξη και πλήρη καταγραφή των κλινικοδημογραφικών χαρακτηριστικών και του ατομικού-κληρονομικού ιατρικού και ψυχιατρικού αναμνηστικού. Λήφθηκαν επίσης πληροφορίες σχετικά με την πρότερη του ΑΕΕ κατάσταση και διάθεση του ασθενούς από κάποιο άτομο που διαβιούσε μαζί του κατόπιν έγγραφης έγκρισης του ιδίου. Προέκυψε πως το 47,61% (10/21) των ασθενών παρουσίαζε συμπτώματα ήπιας έως σοβαρής καταθλιπτικής διαταραχής πριν την εμφάνιση του ισχαιμικού ΑΕΕ με το 100% των οποίων να λαμβάνει αντικαταθλιπτική αγωγή με αναστολείς επαναπρόσληψης σεροτονίνης ή βενζοδιαζεπίνες. Η μέση ηλικία έναρξης της κατάθλιψης ήταν τα 53,14 έτη με σταθερά απόκλισης 10,33. Από τους ασθενείς αυτούς με pre-stroke κατάθλιψη το 90% (9 ασθενείς) ήταν γυναίκες και το 10% (1 ασθενής) άνδρες.
From mitigation to exculpation: battered defendants, expert evidence and the defences of provocation and self-defence
Creators: name: McMahon, Marilyn
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023

description: Submission note: A thesis submitted in total fulfilmentof the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the School of Law, Faculty of Law and Management, La Trobe University, Bundoora.
An effective-field-theory analysis of Efimov physics in heteronuclear mixtures of ultracold atomic gases
Creators: name: Acharya, Bijaya
name: Ji, Chen
name: Platter, Lucas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use an effective-field-theory framework to analyze the Efimov effect in heteronuclear three-body systems consisting of two species of atoms with a large interspecies scattering length. In the leading-order description of this theory, various three-body observables in heteronuclear mixtures can be universally parameterized by one three-body parameter. We present the next-to-leading corrections, which include the effects of the finite interspecies effective range and the finite intraspecies scattering length, to various three-body observables. We show that only one additional three-body parameter is required to render the theory predictive at this order. By including the effective range and intraspecies scattering length corrections, we derive a set of universal relations that connect the different Efimov features near the interspecies Feshbach resonance. Furthermore, we show that these relations can be interpreted in terms of the running of the three-body counterterms that naturally emerge from proper renormalization. Finally, we make predictions for recombination observables of a number of atomic systems that are of experimental interest.
description: peer-reviewed and edited version, errors fixed
Synthesis of aryl perhydroazaphosphorines
Creators: name: Talbot, Brian.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author.
 Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to
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License:by-nc-nd Σημειωτική ανάλυση εταιρικών οπτικών ταυτοτήτων και λογοτύπων. Μια συγκριτική μελέτη περίπτωσης πέντε πολυεθνικών ελεγκτικών εταιρειών.
Creators: name: Αποστολίδου, Αλίκη Άλεξ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2022
Subjects: Σημειωτική του μάρκετινγκ
Εταιρικά λογότυπα
Οπτικές ταυτότητες
Ελεγκτικές εταιρείες
Semiotics of Marketing
Corporate Logos
Visual Identities
Auditing Firms

description: H παρούσα εργασία πραγματεύεται τον ρόλο της κοινωνικής και οπτικής σημειωτικής στη μελέτη των εταιρικών σημάτων, συμβόλων και λογοτύπων, τα οποία αντιπροσωπεύουν νοήματα και αξίες που θέλει να εκπροσωπεί η εκάστοτε εταιρία. Η μελέτη περίπτωσης αφορά συγκεκριμένα τις εξής πέντε μεγαλύτερες διεθνώς ελεγκτικές εταιρείες: α) Deloitte, β) PriceWaterhouseCoopers, γ) E&Y, δ) KPMG και ε) Grant Thornton. Σκοπός της μελέτης είναι να αναδείξει πως η σημειωτική μπορεί να λειτουργήσει ως βασικό εργαλείο στην ανάλυση οπτικών εταιρικών ταυτοτήτων και λογοτύπων. Αξιοποιώντας εργαλεία της κοινωνικής και οπτικής σημειωτικής, θα αναδειχθούν οι πολιτισμικές και ιδεολογικές διαστάσεις τους, αλλά και η νοηματική οργάνωσή τους. Ιδιαίτερη συμβολή σε αυτό το πλαίσιο έχει η προσέγγιση του Floch στη συγκριτική ανάλυση των λογότυπων της Apple και της IBM. Πιο συγκεκριμένα, η έρευνα επικεντρώνεται στη συγκριτική παρατήρηση των 5 εταιρικών ταυτοτήτων με σκοπό την αποκωδικοποίηση και ερμηνεία των λογότυπών τους αφού πρώτα αναλυθούν τα χρώματα, τα γεωμετρικά σχέδια, η δομή και η γραμματοσειρά τους.
description: This paper regards the role of social and visual semiotics in the study of corporate signs, symbols and logos which represent meanings and values that a company wants to represent. The case study specifically concerns the following five major audit firms: a) Deloitte, b) PricewaterhouseCoopers, c) EY, d) KPMG and e) Grant Thornton. The purpose of this paper is to show how semiotics can serve as a key tool in the analysis of corporate visual identities and logos. Utilizing tools of social and visual semiotics, their cultural and ideological dimensions will be highlighted, as well as their semantic organization. Floch's approach to the comparative analysis of Apple and IBM logos has a special contribution in this context. More specifically, the research focuses on the comparative observation of the 5 corporate identities in order to decode and interpret their logos after first analyzing their colors, geometric patterns, structure and font.