cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Additional file 2 of How important is income in explaining individuals having forgone healthcare due to cost-sharing payments? Results from a mixed methods sequential explanatory study
Creators: name: Salampessy, Benjamin H.
name: Portrait, France R. M.
name: Donker, Marianne
name: Ismail, Ismail
name: van der Hijden, Eric J. E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2.
Are `Webographic’ or attitudinal questions useful for adjusting estimates from Web surveys using propensity scoring?
Creators: name: Schonlau, Matthias
name: Van Soest, Arthur
name: Kapteyn, Arie
Publisher: name: European Survey Research Association
Year: 2007
Subjects: propensity scoring; Web survey; selection bias; Webographic variables; lifestyle variables; Simpson’s paradox

description: Inference from Web surveys may be affected by non-random selection of Web survey participants.  One approach to reduce selection bias is to use propensity scores and a parallel phone survey.   This approach uses demographic and additional so-called Webographic or lifestyle variables to balance observed differences between Web survey respondents and phone survey respondents. Here we investigate some of the Webographic questions used by Harris Interactive, a commercial company specializing in Web surveys.  Our Webographic questions include choice of activities such as reading, sports and traveling and perceptions about what would constitute a violation of privacy. We use data from an existing probability sample of respondents over 40 who are interviewed over the phone, and a corresponding sample of respondents interviewed over the Web.  We find that Webographic questions differentiate between on and offline populations differently than demographic questions. In general, propensity score adjustment of variables in the Web survey works quite well for a number of variables of interest (including home ownership and labor force participation).  For two outcomes, (having emotional problems and often experiencing pain) the process of adjusting for demographic variables leads to the discovery of an instance of Simpson’s paradox, implying a differential mode effect or differential selection. We interpret this mainly as the result of a mode effect, where sensitive questions are more likely to receive a positive response over the Internet than over the phone.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 1, No 3 (2007)
Interaction of Regular and Chaotic States
Creators: name: De Pace, A.
name: Molinari, A.
name: Weidenmueller, H. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Modelling the chaotic states in terms of the Gaussian Orthogonal Ensemble of random matrices (GOE), we investigate the interaction of the GOE with regular bound states. The eigenvalues of the latter may or may not be embedded in the GOE spectrum. We derive a generalized form of the Pastur equation for the average Green's function. We use that equation to study the average and the variance of the shift of the regular states, their spreading width, and the deformation of the GOE spectrum non-perturbatively. We compare our results with various perturbative approaches.
description: 26 pages, 9 figures
$^{133}$Cs NMR investigation of 2D frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet, Cs$_2$CuCl$_4$
Creators: name: Vachon, M. -A.
name: Kundhikanjana, W.
name: Straub, A.
name: Mitrović, V. F.
name: Reyes, A. P.
name: Kuhns, P.
name: Coldea, R.
name: Tylczynski, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report $^{133}$Cs nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements on the 2D frustrated Heisenberg antiferromagnet Cs$_2$CuCl$_4$ down to 2 K and up to 15 T. We show that $^{133}$Cs NMR is a good probe of the magnetic degrees of freedom in this material. Cu spin degrees of freedom are sensed through a strong anisotropic hyperfine coupling. The spin excitation gap opens above the critical saturation field. The gap value was determined from the activation energy of the nuclear spin-lattice relaxation rate in a magnetic field applied parallel to the Cu chains (b axis). The values of the g-factor and the saturation field are consistent with the neutron-scattering and magnetization results. The measurements of the spin-spin relaxation time are exploited to show that no structural changes occur down to the lowest temperatures investigated.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, To appear in NJP (http://www.iop.org)
Η απειλή της φωτορύπανσης στο δίκτυο προστατευόμενων περιοχών
Creators: name: Νομικού, Μαρία Κωνσταντίνου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Τεχνητό φως τη νύχτα
Προστατευόμενες περιοχές
Κλιματικά σενάρια
Artificial light at night
Protected areas
Climate scenarios

description: Η εισαγωγή του τεχνητού φωτός έχει αλλάξει το νυχτερινό περιβάλλον, προκαλώντας πολλές αρνητικές επιπτώσεις στη βιοποικιλότητα. Οι ιδιότητες και η κατανομή του τεχνητού φωτός χρησιμοποιούνται για την καταγραφή της ανθρώπινης δραστηριότητας σε μεγάλη κλίμακα. Το τεχνητό φως αποτελεί σοβαρή περιβαλλοντική πρόκληση, με τον αρνητικό του αντίκτυπο να αυξάνεται λόγω της πληθυσμιακής αύξησης και της αστικοποίησης. Επηρεάζει τη φυσιολογία και τη συμπεριφορά οργανισμών, καθώς και τις λειτουργίες των οικοσυστημάτων, μεταβάλλοντας την αφθονία, την κατανομή των ειδών και τη δομή των βιοκοινοτήτων. Αυτή η έρευνα αξιολογεί αν οι προστατευόμενες περιοχές παρέχουν προστασία από το τεχνητό φως, χρησιμοποιώντας δεδομένα φωτισμού του 2015 και προβλέψεις για το 2100. Αξιολογείται αν η έκθεση σε τεχνητό φως θα παραμείνει σταθερή, θα αυξηθεί ή θα μειωθεί μέχρι το τέλος του αιώνα, με βάση δύο κλιματικά σενάρια. Τα αποτελέσματα δείχνουν ότι μόνο ένα μικρό μέρος των προστατευόμενων περιοχών θα μειώσει την έκθεσή του σε τεχνητό φως. Ωστόσο, σημαντική σταθεροποίηση παρατηρείται στο σενάριο SSP2_RPC4.5, το πιο αισιόδοξο από τα σενάρια που χρησιμοποιήθηκαν. Επιπλέον, εντυπωσιακό είναι ότι η Αφρική και η Δυτική Ασία αναμένεται να έχουν τα υψηλότερα επίπεδα έκθεσης σε τεχνητό φως, σε αντίθεση με την Ασία και τον Ειρηνικό, όπου προβλέπεται σταθερότητα.
description: The introduction of artificial light has changed the nocturnal environment, causing many negative impacts on biodiversity. The properties and distribution of artificial light are used to record human activity on a large scale. Artificial light is a serious environmental challenge, with its negative impact increasing due to population growth and urbanization. It affects the physiology and behavior of organisms, as well as the functions of ecosystems, changing the abundance, distribution of species and the structure of bio-communities. This research assesses whether protected areas provide protection from artificial light, using 2015 lighting data and projections for 2100. It assesses whether exposure to artificial light will remain constant, increase or decrease by the end of the century, based on two climate scenarios. The results show that only a small part of the protected areas will reduce its exposure to artificial light. However, significant stabilization is observed in the SSP2_RPC4.5 scenario, the most optimistic of the scenarios used. Additionally, strikingly, Africa and West Asia are expected to have the highest levels of exposure to artificial light, in contrast to Asia and the Pacific, where stability is predicted.
The Me Nobody Knows: A Lighting Design
Creators: name: Shemuga, Brittany
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Design
subject: Theater

description: ABSTRACT

Title of thesis:	THE ME NOBODY KNOWS: A LIGHTING DESIGN

THE KAY THEATRE

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND - COLLEGE PARK

Brittany A. Shemuga, Master of Fine Arts, 2015

Thesis directed by:	Associate Professor, Brian MacDevitt,

School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance

Studies

The purpose of this thesis is to provide research, supporting paperwork, documentation of the process and results of the lighting design for the University of Maryland – College Park, School of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies production of The Me Nobody Knows. This thesis contains the following: research images collected to develop and visually communicate ideas about color, intensity, form, composition and mood to the production team; storyboard with research images and description to depict the arc of lighting design; preliminary and final organization of desired equipment to execute the lighting design; a full set of drafting plates and supplementary paperwork used to communicate the organization and placement of lighting equipment to the master electrician; magic sheets and cue list used as organizational tools for the lighting designer during the tech process. Archival production photographs are included as documentation of the completed design.
title: Cranial remains from the graveyard to the laboratory: restoration, conservation and craniometric analysis of medieval British skeletal samples
Creators: name: Valoriani, S
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2021

description: The present thesis proposes a comparison of 16 British medieval samples by means of craniometric analysis. The purpose of this study is to determine whether craniometric variation among British medieval groups exists and what are the causes of these differences. Following the reconstruction of 267 skulls from Gloucester, Poulton and Linenhall, 45 measurements for each cranium were recorded. Craniometric data from 946 individuals were analysed with multivariate statistical analyses. A selection of 18 variables was used for comparison among samples. A further comparison with a selection from Howells’ main human groups was carried out. Discriminant function analysis, principal component analysis and hierarchical cluster analysis were carried out to detect differences among British medieval samples and British and Howells’ data set. The results support previous work published by other authors indicating a difference in craniometric measurement among British samples. Further discrimination is proved among samples from different geographic areas. This analysis suggests that the differences in craniometrics among British medieval samples are determined by the migration of foreign people from other European areas. A further difference is demonstrated between British and Howells’ samples, with a clustering based on geographical affinity. The European groups (including the British) resemble each other, while the others cluster based on their geographical distribution. The results prove that cranial measurements follow climate adaptation trends and DNA patterns verified by other researchers’ results.
Atom-Pair Tunneling and Quantum Phase Transition in Strong Interaction Regime
Creators: name: Liang, J. -Q.
name: Liu, J. -L.
name: Li, W. -D.
name: Li, Z. -J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2008
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a Hamiltonian of ultracold spinless atoms in optical lattices including the two-body interaction of nearest neighbors, which reduces to the Bose-Hubbard model in weak interaction limit. An atom-pair hoping term appearing in the new Hamiltonian explains naturally the recent experimental observation of correlated tunneling in a double-well trap with strong atom-atom interactions and moreover leads to a new dynamic process of atom-pair tunneling where strongly interacting atoms can tunnel back and forth as a fragmented pair. Finally a new dynamics of oscillations induced by the atom-pair tunneling is found in the strong interaction regime, where the Bose-Hubbard model gives rise to the insulator state with fixed time-averaged value of atom-occupation-number only. Quantum phase transitions between two quantum phases characterized by degenerate and non-degenerate ground states are shown to be coinciding with the Landau second-order phase transition theory. In the system of finite atom-number the degeneracy of ground states can be removed by quantum tunneling for the even-number of atoms but not for the odd-number.
description: 6 figures
Additional file 3 of How important is income in explaining individuals having forgone healthcare due to cost-sharing payments? Results from a mixed methods sequential explanatory study
Creators: name: Salampessy, Benjamin H.
name: Portrait, France R. M.
name: Donker, Marianne
name: Ismail, Ismail
name: van der Hijden, Eric J. E.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 3.
Further Evidence for Variable Synchrotron Emission in XTE J1118+480 in Outburst
Creators: name: Hynes, R. I.
name: Robinson, E. L.
name: Pearson, K. J.
name: Gelino, D. M.
name: Cui, W.
name: Xue, Y.
name: Wood, M. A.
name: Watson, T. K.
name: Winget, D. E.
name: Silver, I. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present simultaneous multicolor infrared and optical photometry of the black hole X-ray transient XTE J1118+480 during its short 2005 January outburst, supported by simultaneous X-ray observations. The variability is dominated by short timescales, ~10s, although a weak superhump also appears to be present in the optical. The optical rapid variations, at least, are well correlated with those in X-rays. Infrared JHKs photometry, as in the previous outburst, exhibits especially large amplitude variability. The spectral energy distribution (SED) of the variable infrared component can be fitted with a power-law of slope alpha=-0.78 where Fnu is proportional to nu^alpha. There is no compelling evidence for evolution in the slope over five nights, during which time the source brightness decayed along almost the same track as seen in variations within the nights. We conclude that both short-term variability, and longer timescale fading, are dominated by a single component of constant spectral shape. We cannot fit the SED of the IR variability with a credible thermal component, either optically thick or thin. This IR SED is, however, approximately consistent with optically thin synchrotron emission from a jet. These observations therefore provide indirect evidence to support jet-dominated models for XTE J1118+480 and also provide a direct measurement of the slope of the optically thin emission which is impossible based on the average spectral energy distribution alone.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
SPARE PARTS: SMALL ARMS PROLIFERATION AND THE DILEMMA OF GOVERNANCE, AUTHORITY, AND FOREIGN MILITARY ASSISTANCE
Creators: name: Merrell, Brian Christopher
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Military history
subject: Afghanistan
subject: arms trade
subject: military assistance
subject: Pakistan
subject: small arms
subject: South Asia

description: This thesis examines the international state-directed arms trade in South Asia following WWII, and describes how attempts to limit the arms flow into the region were subverted by less constrained suppliers and by the superpowers themselves. Donor states distributed surplus items to less industrialized states, who eagerly accepted modern weapons that they could not produce domestically. Small arms are of special interest because of their very low cost; high production volume; low skill requirements for use; and the ease of distribution compared to major weapons systems. The South Asian states examined here pursued their own regional security agendas rather than conform to the Cold War paradigm of donor states. This demonstrated the failure of arms transfers as a diplomatic tool. It also resulted in a decline of civilian governance, the increased primacy of military authority, and the creation of conditions for enduring insecurity rather than security.
Ο χρόνος στον Bergson: η διαμάχη Bergson-Einstein
Creators: name: Λεπιντάτου, Μαρία Αντωνίου
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: η έννοια του χρόνου
διαμάχη Μπεργκσόν-Αϊνστάιν
φιλοσοφική ερμηνεία του χρόνου
Bergson Henri
Einstein Albert
mathematical philosophy

description: Στην εργασία αυτή, γίνεται μία μελέτη σχετικά με τον τρόπο που αντιλαμβάνεται ο Henri Bergson την έννοια του χρόνου και η διαμάχη που προκύπτει μεταξύ των απόψεων των Bergson και Albert Einstein ως προς την αντίληψή τους προς το χρόνο. Αναλύεται η έννοια του χρόνου από τις απαρχές του Ελληνισμού έως και τον 21ο αιώνα. Γίνεται μια περιγραφή της θεωρίας του Φιλοσόφου για το πώς αντιλαμβάνεται ο ίδιος την έννοια του χρόνου μέσα από το αυτοβιογραφικό και συγγραφικό του έργο. Σε αντιδιαστολή με τον Φιλόσοφο, αναλύεται επιπλέον η έννοια του χρόνου στον Φυσικό. Παρατίθενται βασικές πτυχές της μαθηματικής του φιλοσοφίας για το χρόνο. Οι ανωτέρω «συγκρούονται» αναλύοντας τις διαχρονικές τους θεωρίες προσπαθώντας να υπερτερήσει ο ένας αντί του άλλου. Τελικά, η διαμάχη αυτή γεννά μελλοντικά ερωτήματα για το πώς ερμηνεύεται ο χρόνος φιλοσοφικά και μαθηματικά
description: In this paper, a study is made on the way Henri Bergson perceives the concept of time and on the conflict that arises between Bergson’s and Albert Einstein's views of their perception of time. The concept of time is analyzed from the origins of Hellenism until the 21st century. A description of the Philosopher's theory on how he himself perceives the meaning of time is made through his autobiographical and authorial work. Contrary to the Philosopher's views, a further analysis, as far as the concept of time is concerned, is made by the Physicist. Basic aspects of his mathematical philosophy about time are presented as well. The above mentioned, in their effort to surpass one another take part in a conflict analyzing their timeless theories. Finally, this conflict brings on the surface future questions on how time can be interpreted both philosophically and mathematically
On Leaning To Play The Piano With A Hammer
Creators: name: Foster, Mary Katherine
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fine arts

description: By way of a libretto, these poems follow a singular speaker who figures herself within the simultaneous growth, passion, violence, and destruction inherent in the art, mythology, archetypes, dreams, and natural phenomena that she encounters, as a means of negotiating forms of grief and loss. For her, realities of sleep, memory, language, and consciousness regularly collide and threaten to eclipse or ruin one another, from which follows her interest in the unities of musical compositions, Latin language roots, and the structure of storyscapes.
Model dependence of the polarization asymmetries in weak pion production off the nucleon
Creators: name: Graczyk, Krzysztof M.
name: Kowal, Beata E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The work presents the studies of the polarization observables in the single pion production (SPP) induced by the interaction of the muon neutrino (antineutrino) with nucleons. The SPP cross-sections and spin asymmetries are computed within two phenomenological models. One is basing on the nonlinear sigma model \cite{Hernandez:2007qq}; the other has origin in linear sigma model~\cite{Fogli:1979cz}. Firstly, we show that the final nucleon polarization and target spin asymmetries are good observables to obtain information about the $C_5^A$ axial form factor. Secondly, we demonstrate that the nucleon polarization and the target spin asymmetries are sensitive to the relative phase between resonance and nonresonance amplitudes. We conclude that the polarization of the final nucleon and the target spin asymmetry are promising observables for testing SPP models, including studies of the axial content of $Δ(1232)$ resonance and unitarization procedures.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures
Energy measurements and correlations of the standard penetration test (SPT) and the becker penetration test (BPT)
Creators: name: Sy, Alexander
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2009

description: The Standard penetration test (SPT) and the Becker penetration test (BPT) are two of the most widely used in-situ tests in North America. The SPT is most commonly used in sands and silty sands, while the BPT, being a large-scale penetration test, is more useful in gravelly soils. Both tests involve hammer impact on penetration rods, and the resulting penetration resistance or blow count is strongly influenced by the amount of hammer energy actually transferred into the drill rods. To make use of the large world-wide foundation performance data base currently available for the SPT, the BPT blow counts are commonly correlated to the SPT blow counts. Most of the existing correlations, however, have limited applications since they do not take into account the inherently variable output of the diesel hammer used in the Becker system and they ignore the soil friction acting on the Becker casing during driving. This research shows that the existing methods of SPT and BPT energy calibrations have serious shortcomings, and that a more fundamental approach of determining the transferred energy, based on force and acceleration measurements, should be adopted for both tests. The proposed approach provides a unified method of measuring transferred energy in the SPT and BPT, similar in principle to that currently used in dynamic testing of piles. At four research sites in Greater Vancouver, SPTs, BPTs and electric cone penetration tests were conducted. Dynamic measurements were also carried out which included force and acceleration near the top of the drill rods or pipes in the SPT and BPT, as well as bounce-chamber and combustion-chamber pressures in the double-acting diesel hammer during the BPT. An energy approach for correcting the measured BPT blow count to a reference energy level, similar in concept to that used for the SPT, is proposed. Factors affecting the BPT blow counts are investigated including hammer combustion conditions, different drill rigs, and different pipe sizes. The test results confirm that the measured transferred energy is a fundamental and useful parameter for normalizing the BPT blow counts to account for the variable energy output of the diesel hammer. The effect of casing friction in the BPT is investigated by field measurements and numerical analyses. New BPT-SPT correlations are proposed which consider the energy transfer in both tests and which, for the first time, account for casing friction in the BPT. It is shown that the proposed BPT-SPT correlations provide a rational framework for determining equivalent SPTN60 values from measured BPT blow counts, and can be applied with some confidence to gravel sites for which the BPT has proven to be a most practical and economical testing technique.
Vacuum structure as seen by overlap fermions
Creators: name: Ilgenfritz, E. -M.
name: Koller, K.
name: Koma, Y.
name: Schierholz, G.
name: Streuer, T.
name: Weinberg, V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Three complementary views on the QCD vacuum structure, all based on eigenmodes of the overlap operator, are reported in their interrelation: (i) spectral density, localization and chiral properties of the modes, (ii) the possibility of filtering the field strength with the aim to detect selfdual and antiselfdual domains and (iii) the various faces of the topological charge density, with and without a cutoff λ_{\rm cut} = O(Λ_{QCD}). The techniques are tested on quenched SU(3) configurations.
description: 4 pages, 3 figures, talk given by E.-M. I. at "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum VII", Ponta Delgada, Azores, Portugal, to appear in the Proceedings
In The Hall of The Great North American Mammal
Creators: name: Henderson, Mason
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: Fine arts
subject: Alaska
subject: Bear
subject: Hall
subject: Henderson
subject: Mammal
subject: Poetry

description: "In The Hall of The Great North American Mammal" is a collection of poems in three parts that examines a speaker as he grapples with the concept of his own inevitable adulthood, finding, ultimately, that the depths of his heart linger in the romanticized promise of perceived adolescence. The dissonance he finds between the two stages of himself is treated as a real geography, a physical space where the forces of "other" and "self" wander and meet, where the unexpected or dangerous environment proves or tests the trajectory of this speaker's growth. Through the narrative of the extended poem in section two, this landscape becomes a way to flesh out the dissonance created by the speaker's maturing, while still attempting to recognize and celebrate the work that comes with forging or finding a path in an unfamiliar world.
Grammatical elicitation: Stress
Creators: name: Gómez, María
name: Dabkowski, Maksymilian
name: Bossi, Madeline
name: Drummond, Emily
name: Grabowski, Emily
name: Jarvis, Rebecca
name: Khuu, Phuong
name: Michael, Lev
name: Russell, Katherine
Publisher: name: California Language Archive, University of California, Berkeley
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: gug

description: Stress on nouns inflected for plurality and tense, stress on postpositional phrases.
A Longitudinal, Mixed-Method Study of the Identity Theory of Desistance
Creators: name: Scott, Thomas Lind
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Criminology
subject: FOS: Law
subject: Desistance
subject: Group-based trajectory model
subject: Identity

description: Recently, Paternoster and Bushway (2009) developed the Identity Theory of Desistance to explain how once criminal offenders transform their identities and reform. In an effort to test important components of this theory, the current study analyzed retrospective narratives from 144 substance-involved, male offenders from Delaware. After coding the narratives for mention of concepts from the identity theory and other theories of desistance, the author conducted time-based and age-based group-based trajectory models and multinomial logistic regression analyses to test whether the identity theory could explain criminal desistance. Results suggest that many offenders undergo these processes, and there may be experiences that distinguish those who desist from those who persist in crime and drug use. These include the formation of hoped-for selves, a change in preferences, social networks, and routine activities, motivation to change, and treatment.
Additional file 1 of Nutritional status and adequacy of feeding Practices in Infants and Toddlers 0-23.9 months living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE): findings from the feeding Infants and Toddlers Study (FITS) 2020
Creators: name: Cheikh Ismail, Leila
name: Al Dhaheri, Ayesha S.
name: Ibrahim, Sarah
name: Ali, Habiba I.
name: Chokor, Fatima Al Zahraa
name: O’Neill, Lynda M.
name: Mohamad, Maysm N.
name: Kassis, Amira
name: Ayesh, Wafaa
name: Kharroubi, Samer
name: Hwalla, Nahla
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
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

description: Additional file 1.
Initial Development and Validation of a Questionnaire to Assess Risk of Personal Victimization and Bullying
Creators: name: Perlow, Benjamin Joseph
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Educational psychology
subject: Educational tests & measurements
subject: Bullying Questionnaire
subject: Victimization Questionnaire

description: The goals of the research were to (a) develop methods of predicting bullying and victimization rates for potential research and practice purposes, (b) compare methods for developing measures of prediction scales (factor based scales and criterion-related item selection), (c) compare the cross-validated validity of regression-weighted versus unit-weighted composites, and (d) assess the rates of correct and incorrect predictions when identifying people who are potentially at greatest risk of bullying or victimization. This research tested the factors on a university aged population. The factor based scales that best predicted bullying or victimization rates were negative self-esteem, hostile behaviors to others, and risky behaviors. Both the regression equations and the unit weighting method produced significant correlations between the predictive and outcome measures. Two potential applications of the questionnaires are to help researchers gain a better understanding of bullying or victimization and to target interventions with potential to prevent future bullying or victimization.
Cosmological Information from Lensed CMB Power Spectra
Creators: name: Smith, Kendrick M.
name: Hu, Wayne
name: Kaplinghat, Manoj
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Gravitational lensing distorts the cosmic microwave background (CMB) temperature and polarization fields and encodes valuable information on distances and growth rates at intermediate redshifts into the lensed power spectra. The non-Gaussian bandpower covariance induced by the lenses is negligible to l=2000 for all but the B polarization field where it increases the net variance by up to a factor of 10 and favors an observing strategy with 3 times more area than if it were Gaussian. To quantify the cosmological information, we introduce two lensing observables, characterizing nearly all of the information, which simplify the study of non-Gaussian impact, parameter degeneracies, dark energy models, and complementarity with other cosmological probes. Information on the intermediate redshift parameters rapidly becomes limited by constraints on the cold dark matter density and initial amplitude of fluctuations as observations improve. Extraction of this information requires deep polarization measurements on only 5-10% of the sky, and can improve Planck lensing constraints by a factor of ~2-3 on any one of the parameters w_0, w_a, Omega_K, sum(m_nu) with the others fixed. Sensitivity to the curvature and neutrino mass are the highest due to the high redshift weight of CMB lensing but degeneracies between the parameters must be broken externally.
description: 19 pages, 16 figures, submitted to PRD
Modelling the driver for traffic flow simulation
Creators: name: Stang, Norman Erik
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2008

description: For 60 years, engineers have modelled traffic flow for use in roadway analysis and design. A continuing problem with such models, though, is their inability to adequately capture the human element in the system. The human driver does not think and act in precise ways, making him difficult to model using conventional mathematical means. This research explored an alternative method of formulating driving models. It started from a psychological basis and used fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic provided a systematic way of handling imprecision, and its constructs allowed a more intuitive model of driving, one more closely resembling the thinking and acting patterns of humans. A new fuzzy logic driver model was developed. Its structure was based on a general psychological model of human information processing. It was designed so it could be programmed with specific driving behaviour by an end user. To demonstrate and validate it, the model was programmed for two lane rural highway driving and used in simulations of these facilities. Results were compared to field data and the Highway Capacity Manual and proved favourable. The result of the work was a computer based road simulation toolbox containing the new fuzzy logic driver model. The toolbox provides a user with the ability to construct his own road networks, driver types, and vehicle types. With these, he can simulate traffic and examine both isolated incidents and overall performance measures.
Isamu Dreams of Flying
Creators: name: Kauffman, Ashlie
Publisher: name: Digital Repository at the University of Maryland
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Literature
subject: Asian American studies
subject: Fine arts
subject: airplane
subject: Gilmour
subject: Isamu
subject: Japan
subject: Leonie
subject: Noguchi

description: Fictionalized events in the life of Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988) are woven with the story of a boy fascinated with airplanes, who grows up to be an artist. This section shows Isamu and his mother, Leonie Gilmour, traveling to Japan to live with his father, poet Yone Noguchi. In Japan, Isamu is raised solely by Leonie. He is surprised when she gives birth to his sister, the dancer Ailes Gilmour. Facing racial discrimination and feeling envy toward Ailes, he departs in 1918 for boarding school in Indiana. Interspersed with this is the story of a boy, David, who builds a model airplane that he wishes to show his mother when he visits her for a week. Raised by his father, he is envious of attention his mother gives her boyfriend. As an adult, David begins dating a woman named Elizabeth, before he moves to Japan to teach art.
High Resolution Imaging of Molecular Outflows in Massive Young Stars
Creators: name: Qiu, Keping
name: Zhang, Qizhou
name: Beuther, Henrik
name: Yang, Ji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high angular resolution observations toward two massive star forming regions IRAS 18264-1152 and IRAS 23151+5912 with the Plateau de Bure Interferometer (PdBI) in the SiO (J=2-1) and H$^{13}$CO$^{+}$ (J=1-0) lines and at 1.3 mm and 3.4 mm continuum, and with the Very Large Array (VLA) in the NH$_3$ (J,K)=(1,1), (2,2) lines. The NH$_3$ (1,1) and (2,2) emission is detected toward IRAS 18264-1152 only. For IRAS 18264-1152, the SiO observations reveal at least two quasi-perpendicular outflows with high collimation factors, and the most dominant feature is a redshifted jet-like outflow with very high velocities up to about $Δv=60$ kms$^{-1}$ with respect to the systemic velocity. The very-high-velocity component ($Δv=22 - 60$ kms$^{-1}$) of this outflow is spatially offset from its high-velocity ($Δv=3 - 21$ kms$^{-1}$) component. The SiO line profiles and position-velocity characteristics of these two components suggest that this outflow can be driven by an underlying precessing jet. For IRAS 23151+5912, the bipolar but mainly blueshifted SiO outflow coincides with the inner parts of the single-dish CO outflow. In particular the quasi-parabolic shape of the blueshifted outflow coincides with the near-infrared nebulosity and is consistent with entrainment of the gas by an underlying wide-angle wind. The analysis of the molecular outflow data of the two luminous sources further support high-mass stars forming via a disk-mediated accretion process similar to low-mass stars.
description: Accepter for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
Master equation approach to the stochastic accumulation dynamics of bacterial cell cycle
Creators: name: Luo, Liang
name: Bai, Yang
name: Fu, Xiongfei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Cell Behavior (q-bio.CB)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The mechanism of bacterial cell size control has been a mystery for decades, which involves the well-coordinated growth and division in the cell cycle. The revolutionary modern techniques of microfluidics and the advanced live imaging analysis techniques allow long term observations and high-throughput analysis of bacterial growth on single cell level, promoting a new wave of quantitative investigations on this puzzle. Taking the opportunity, this theoretical study aims to clarify the stochastic nature of bacterial cell size control under the assumption of the accumulation mechanism, which is favoured by recent experiments on species of bacteria. Via the master equation approach with properly chosen boundary conditions, the distributions concerned in cell size control are estimated and are confirmed by experiments. In this analysis, the inter-generation Green's function is analytically evaluated as the key to bridge two kinds of statistics used in batch-culture and mother machine experiments. This framework allows us to quantify the noise level in growth and accumulation according to experimental data. As a consequence of non-Gaussian noises of the added sizes, the non-equilibrium nature of bacterial cell size homeostasis is predicted, of which the biological meaning requires further investigation.
description: 32 pages, 11 figures
Entanglement properties in the Inhomogeneous Tavis-Cummings model
Creators: name: López, C. E.
name: Lastra, F.
name: Romero, G.
name: Retamal, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work we study the properties of the atomic entanglement in the eigenstates spectrum of the inhomogeneous Tavis-Cummings Model. The inhomogeneity is present in the coupling among the atoms with quantum electromagnetic field. We calculate analytical expressions for the concurrence and we found that this exhibits a strong dependence on the inhomogeneity.
description: 5 pages, 5 figures
Modern Statistical Methods for GLAST Event Analysis
Creators: name: Morris, Robin D.
name: Cohen-Tanugi, Johann
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a statistical reconstruction methodology for the GLAST LAT. The methodology incorporates in detail the statistics of the interactions of photons and charged particles with the tungsten layers in the LAT, and uses the scattering distributions to compute the full probability distribution over the energy and direction of the incident photons. It uses model selection methods to estimate the probabilities of the possible geometrical configurations of the particles produced in the detector, and numerical marginalization over the energy loss and scattering angles at each layer. Preliminary results show that it can improve on the tracker-only energy estimates for muons and electrons incident on the LAT.
description: To appear in the proceedings of the First GLAST Symposium (held at Stanford University, 5-8 February 2007)
Η αστική ευθύνη της ιδιωτικής κλινικής για πράξεις που διενεργούνται στις εγκαταστάσεις της. Μία πρόταση για την αναθεώρηση της ευθύνης του προστήσαντος
Creators: name: Χρίστογλου, Κωνσταντίνος Μιχαήλ
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2019
Subjects: Ιατρική Αστική Ευθύνη
Ευθύνη Προστήσαντος
Ευθύνη από Πρόστηση Ιδιωτικής Κλινικής
Medical civil liability
Vicarious liability
Vicarious liability of a private clinic (private hospital)

description: Η εργασία διερευνά την επικρατούσα κατάσταση, που αφορά την ευθύνη της ιδιωτικής κλινικής για ζημίες από ιατρικές πράξεις, λόγω αμέλειας και λόγω πρόστησης, και εξετάζει την δυνατότητα πιθανής κλιμάκωσης της αστικής ευθύνης λόγω πρόστησης, ανάλογα με το είδος της σχέσης που διέπει την παροχή υπηρεσιών των ιατρών, στην ιδιωτική κλινική. Η υλοποίηση της παρούσας εργασίας βασίστηκε στην βιβλιογραφική ανασκόπηση και στην διαθέσιμη νομολογία των ελληνικών Δικαστηρίων όλων των βαθμίδων, που αφορά την ευθύνη της ιδιωτικής κλινικής για ζημίες από ιατρικές πράξεις, λόγω αμέλειας και λόγω πρόστησης. Πραγματοποιήθηκε αναζήτηση στην υφιστάμενη νομοθεσία, στους ισχύοντες Νομικούς Κώδικες, στην Νομοθεσία περί ιδιωτικών κλινικών, καθώς και σε άρθρα και σκέψεις επιστημόνων του νομικού κόσμου. Ο αριθμός των περιπτώσεων που καταλήγουν τα τελευταία χρόνια στις δικαστικές αίθουσες, Παγκοσμίως, στην Ευρώπη αλλά και ιδιαίτερα στην Ελλάδα, ορίζει την αναγκαιότητα της αποφυγής της όποιας «αμυντικής ιατρικής» και επιβάλλει την αναζήτηση μιας πιθανής κλιμάκωσης της ευθύνης των ιδιωτικών κλινικών. Διαμορφώθηκε μία πρόταση με την ονομασία η «άλλη θεώρηση» της πρόστησης, καθώς και «σκέψεις αντί επιλόγου», που ίσως θα μπορούσαν να γίνουν αποδεκτές από την νομική επιστημονική κοινότητα, ώστε να συμβάλλουν στην αρτιότερη και ταχύτερη απόδοση δικαιοσύνης
description: This study explores the current situation regarding the liability of the private clinic for medical damages, due to negligence and vicarious liability, and examines the possibility of a potential scaling up of civil liability due to vicarious liability, depending on the type of relationship that governs the providing services of the physicians to the clinic. The implementation of this work was based on literature review and the available case law of the Greek courts of all levels, concerning the liability of the private clinic for damages from medical acts, due to negligence and due to vicarious liability. A research of the existing legislation, the current Legal Codes, the Legislation on private clinics, as well as of articles and thoughts of experts of the legal world was carried out. The number of cases Worldwide, in Europe and especially in Greece in recent years that end up to the courtroom , calls for the need to avoid any "defense medicine" and requires the search for a possible scaling up of the responsibility of private clinics. The proposal approach, formed with the name "other viewpoint" for the vicarious liability, as well as the "thoughts instead of conclusions", may, if acceptable by the legal community, contribute to a faster and more efficient justice
The v_c-sigma_c relation in low mass and low surface brightness galaxies
Creators: name: Buyle, Pieter
name: Ferrarese, Laura
name: Gentile, Gianfranco
name: Dejonghe, Herwig
name: Baes, Maarten
name: Klein, Ulrich
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an updated investigation of the relation between large scale disk circular velocity, v_c, and bulge velocity dispersion, sigma_c. New bulge velocity dispersions are measured for a sample of 11 low surface brightness (LSB) and 7 high surface brightness (HSB) spiral galaxies for which v_c is known from published optical or HI rotation curves. We find that, while LSB galaxies appear to define the upper envelope of the region occupied by HSB galaxies (having relatively larger v_c for any given sigma_c), the distinction between LSB and HSB galaxies in the v_c-sigma_c plane becomes less pronounced for sigma_c <= 80 km/s. We conclude that either the scatter of the v_c-sigma_c relation is a function of v_c (and hence galaxy mass) or that the character of the v_c-sigma_c relation changes at v_c ~ 80 km/s. Some inplications of our findings are discussed.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 5 pages, 3 figures, 1 table
Adventures in Friedmann Cosmology: An Educationally Detailed Expansion of the Cosmological Friedmann Equations
Creators: name: Nemiroff, Robert J.
name: Patla, Bijunath
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The general relativistic cosmological Friedmann equations which describe how the scale factor of the universe evolves are expanded explicitly to include energy forms not usually seen. The evolution of the universe as predicted by the Friedmann equations when dominated by a single, isotropic, stable, static, perfect-fluid energy form is discussed for different values of its gravitational pressure to density ratio $w$. These energy forms include phantom energy ($w1/3$). A brief history and possible futures of Friedmann universes dominated by a single energy form are discussed.
description: 32 pages, 4 tables; modified version accepted for publication in the American Journal of Physics
Visual Design, Order Effects, and Respondent Characteristics in a Self-Administered Survey
Creators: name: Stern, Michael
name: Dillman, Don A.
name: Smyth, Jolene D.
Publisher: name: European Survey Research Association
Year: 2007
Subjects: Visual Design Theory; Demographic Differences, Measurement Errors; Self Administered Surveys

description: Recent survey design research has shown that small changes in the structure and visual layout of questions can affect respondents' answers.  While the findings have provided strong evidence of such effects, they are limited by the homogeneity of their samples, in that many of these studies have used random samples of college students. In this paper, we examine the effects of seven experimental alterations in question format and visual design using data from a general population survey that allows us to examine the effects of demographic differences among respondents.  Results from a 2005 random sample mail survey of 1,315 households in a small metropolitan region of the United States suggest that the visual layout of survey questions affects different demographic groups in similar ways.
description: Survey Research Methods, Vol 1, No 3 (2007)
AGN jet models
Creators: name: Kaiser, Christian R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this review I concentrate exclusively on models for the large-scale structure created by jet flows in AGN. I briefly mention models for the evolution and emission of these objects and how they can also be applied to microquasars. While in radio-loud AGN we can directly use the radio synchrotron emission of these structures, we need to find other detection methods in microquasars. Where possible, the application of AGN models has produced important insights into the time-averaged energy transport rate of microquasar jets. I also describe methods for using the large-scale structure of jets to infer jet duty cycles. Finally, I point out some recent work taking the idea of a connection of accretion disc states and jet production from microquasars and applying it to radio-loud AGN.
description: 9 pages, no figures, Accepted for publication in the proceedings of Microquasar '06 conference (Como, Italy), eds: T. Belloni et al. (2006), available from pos.sissa.it
Crystalline electric fields and the magnetic ground state of the novel Heusler intermetallic YbRh$_{2}$Pb
Creators: name: Sokolov, D. A.
name: Kim, M. S.
name: Aronson, M. C.
name: Henderson, C.
name: Stephens, P. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have synthesized a new intermetallic compound with a distorted Heusler structure, YbRh$_{2}$Pb. We present a study of the magnetic, thermal, and transport properties. Heat capacity measurements revealed that YbRh$_{2}$Pb orders magnetically below T$_{N}$=0.57 K from a paramagnetic state with substantial crystal electric field splitting. Magnetic field further splits the ground state, which leads to the suppression of magnetic order in YbRh$_{2}$Pb.
description: 5 pages, 9 figures, submitted to PRB. Figures are downsized