cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The effects of price promotion on relative virtue and vice food products
Creators: name: Parreño-Selva, Josefa
name: Mas-Ruiz, Francisco J.
name: Ruiz-Conde, Enar
name: Parreño-Selva, Josefa
name: Mas-Ruiz, Francisco J.
name: Ruiz-Conde, Enar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: light product
subject: regular product
subject: relative virtues and vices
subject: price promotions

description: Retailers use price promotion of light and regular products, but not all of these products are perceived as relative virtues and vices, respectively. This paper aims to identify whether consumers distinguish between the two product categories. Survey data is used to distinguish between each product category, and identifies low-fat milk as a light product that gives both immediate and delayed rewards. Daily scanner data from a hypermarket supports the effects of price promotions on sales within and between product categories, as expected. We expect that, (1) due to these light products representing more enduring involvement, demand is less price sensitive compared to demand for regular products; (2) as nonimpulse purchase products, price promotions of light products cannibalize the sales of other light products; and (3) the loss of light product benefits associated with switching means that price promotions of light products hurt regular product sales more than vice versa.
Recovering a variable exponent
Creators: name: Brander, Tommi
name: Siltakoski, Jarkko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 34A55 (Primary) 41A10, 34B15, 28A25 (Secondary)

description: We consider an inverse problem of recovering the non-linearity in the one dimensional variable exponent $p(x)$-Laplace equation from the Dirichlet-to-Neumann map. The variable exponent can be recovered up to the natural obstruction of rearrangements. The main technique is using a Müntz-Szász theorem after reducing the problem to determining a function from its $L^p$-norms.
description: 20 pages, no figures
ESO-VLT and Spitzer spectroscopy of IRAS05328-6827: a massive young stellar object in the Large Magellanic Cloud
Creators: name: van Loon, Jacco Th.
name: Oliveira, J. M.
name: Wood, P. R.
name: Zijlstra, A. A.
name: Sloan, G. C.
name: Matsuura, M.
name: Whitelock, P. A.
name: Groenewegen, M. A. T.
name: Blommaert, J. A. D. L.
name: Cioni, M. -R. L.
name: Hony, S.
name: Loup, C.
name: Waters, L. B. F. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the first thermal-infrared spectra of an extra-galactic Young Stellar Object (YSO), IRAS05328-6827 in the HII region LHA 120-N148 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. The observed and modelled spectral energy distribution reveals a massive YSO, M=20 Msun, which is heavily-embedded and probably still accreting. The reduced dust content as a consequence of the lower metallicity of the LMC allows a unique view into this object, and together with a high C/O ratio may be responsible for the observed low abundance of water ice and relatively high abundances of methanol and CO2 ices.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters. 5 pages, 5 figures
Eine anspruchsvolle Lektüre mit viel Überraschungseffekt, die Schicksale sprechen lässt. Über die sprachlich-kulturellen Aspekte von Tomasz Kamusellas „Limits“ und der schlesischen Übersetzung Marcin Melons „Styknie“
Creators: name: Kubik, Adam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 200299 Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Other humanities
subject: 200303 English as a Second Language
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
subject: 200302 English Language
subject: 200399 Language Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200405 Language in Culture and Society (Sociolinguistics)
subject: 200406 Language in Time and Space (incl. Historical Linguistics, Dialectology)
subject: 209999 Language, Communication and Culture not elsewhere classified
subject: 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: 200499 Linguistics not elsewhere classified
subject: 200522 Other Asian Literature (excl. South-East Asian)
subject: 200310 Other European Languages
subject: 200508 Other Literatures in English
subject: 200211 Postcolonial Studies
subject: 200209 Multicultural, Intercultural and Cross-cultural Studies
subject: 200307 German Language
subject: 200322 Comparative Language Studies
subject: 200524 Comparative Literature Studies
subject: 200202 Asian Cultural Studies
subject: 200304 Central and Eastern European Languages (incl. Russian)
subject: 200509 Central and Eastern European Literature (incl. Russian)
subject: 210399 Historical Studies not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: History and archaeology
subject: History

description: Book review of Tomasz Kamusella's "Limits" (English) and Marcin Mellon's "Styknie" (Silesian) in German. The first English-Silesian book in Upper Silesia and Poland.

Buchbesprechung von Tomasz Kamusellas "Limits" (Englisch) und Mercin Mellons "Styknie" (Schlesisch) auf Deutsch, das erste englisch-schlesische Buch in Oberschlesien und Polen.
Additional file 1 of Psychological demands of health professionals in the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
Creators: name: Silva, Miryam Cristina Mazieiro Vergueiro da
name: Ioschpe, Bruno
name: Diniz, Fernanda Santos
name: de Oliveira, Graça Maria Ramos
name: Saffi, Fabiana
name: Soares, Amanda Rafaella Abreu
name: de Almeida Rocca, Cristiana Castanho
name: de Pádua Serafim, Antonio
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Material A. Questionário de Demandas Psicológicas. Supplementary Material B. Questionário para avaliação do programa de psicoeducação.
Zero-inflated ordered probit approach to modeling mushroom consumption in the United States
Creators: name: Jiang, Yuan
name: House, Lisa A.
name: Kim, Hyeyoung
name: Percival, Susan S.
name: Jiang, Yuan
name: House, Lisa A.
name: Kim, Hyeyoung
name: Percival, Susan S.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Marketing
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: fresh and processed mushrooms
subject: zero-inflated ordered probit model (ZOIP)
subject: consumption behaviors
subject: double hurdle model

description: This paper investigates the determinants of fresh and processed mushroom consumption in the United States by employing the zero-inflated ordered probit (ZIOP) model. The ZIOP model accounts for excessive zero observations and allows us to differentiate between genuine non-consumers and individuals who did not consume during the given period but might under different circumstances. The results indicate that the market for fresh mushrooms is larger than that for processed mushrooms. However, the market for processed mushrooms has a larger portion of potential consumers which might indicate more potential if appropriate marketing strategies are applied. The results also suggest that the decisions to participate in the market or not and the consumption frequency are driven by structurally different factors. A comparison of the ZIOP to other models is included to show the advantages of allowing for non-consumers and potential consumers to be analyzed separately.
description: Supplemental data appended to this article.
The afterglow and the host galaxy of GRB 011211
Creators: name: Jakobsson, P.
name: Hjorth, J.
name: Fynbo, J. P. U.
name: Gorosabel, J.
name: Pedersen, K.
name: Burud, I.
name: Levan, A.
name: Kouveliotou, C.
name: Tanvir, N.
name: Fruchter, A.
name: Rhoads, J.
name: Grav, T.
name: Hansen, M. W.
name: Michelsen, R.
name: Andersen, M. I.
name: Jensen, B. L.
name: Pedersen, H.
name: Thomsen, B.
name: Weidinger, M.
name: Bhargavi, S. G.
name: Cowsik, R.
name: Pandey, S. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical, near-infrared, and X-ray observations of the optical afterglow (OA) of the X-ray rich, long-duration gamma-ray burst GRB 011211. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) data obtained 14, 26, 32, and 59 days after the burst, show the host galaxy to have a morphology that is fairly typical of blue galaxies at high redshift. We measure its magnitude to be R = 24.95 +/- 0.11. We detect a break in the OA R-band light curve which is naturally accounted for by a collimated outflow geometry. By fitting a broken power-law to the data we find a best fit with a break 1.56 +/- 0.02 days after the burst, a pre-break slope of alpha_1 = -0.95 +/- 0.02, and a post-break slope of alpha_2 = -2.11 +/- 0.07. The UV-optical spectral energy distribution (SED) around 14 hours after the burst is best fit with a power-law with index beta = -0.56 +/- 0.19 reddened by an SMC-like extinction law with a modest A_V = 0.08 +/- 0.08 mag. By comparison, from the XMM-Newton X-ray data at around the same time, we find a decay index of alpha_X = -1.62 +/- 0.36 and a spectral index of beta_X = -1.21 +0.10/-0.15. Interpolating between the UV-optical and X-ray implies that the cooling frequency is located close to ~10^16 Hz in the observer frame at the time of the observations. We argue, using the various temporal and spectral indices above, that the most likely afterglow model is that of a jet expanding into an external environment that has a constant mean density rather than a wind-fed density structure. We estimate the electron energy index for this burst to be p ~ 2.3.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in A&A
“Soft Balancing” avant la Lettre : Latin America and the United States : Latin America and the United States
Creators: name: Friedman, Max Paul
name: Long, Tom
Publisher: name: The MIT Press
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 44
subject: Human society

description: In the aftermath of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, scholars of international relations debated how to best characterize the rising tide of global opposition. The concept of “soft balancing” emerged as an influential, though contested, explanation of a new phenomenon in a unipolar world: states seeking to constrain the ability of the United States to deploy military force by using multinational organizations, international law, and coalition building. Soft balancing can also be observed in regional unipolar systems. Multinational archival research reveals how Argentina, Mexico, and other Latin American countries responded to expanding U.S. power and military assertiveness in the early twentieth century through coordinated diplomatic maneuvering that provides a strong example of soft balancing. Examination of this earlier case makes an empirical contribution to the emerging soft-balancing literature and suggests that soft balancing need not lead to hard balancing or open conflict.
Survey Data and Human Computation for Improved Flu Tracking
Creators: name: Wojcik, Stefan
name: Bijral, Avleen
name: Johnston, Richard
name: Lavista, Juan Miguel
name: King, Gary
name: Kennedy, Ryan
name: Vespignani, Alessandro
name: Lazer, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: While digital trace data from sources like search engines hold enormous potential for tracking and understanding human behavior, these streams of data lack information about the actual experiences of those individuals generating the data. Moreover, most current methods ignore or under-utilize human processing capabilities that allow humans to solve problems not yet solvable by computers (human computation). We demonstrate how behavioral research, linking digital and real-world behavior, along with human computation, can be utilized to improve the performance of studies using digital data streams. This study looks at the use of search data to track prevalence of Influenza-Like Illness (ILI). We build a behavioral model of flu search based on survey data linked to users online browsing data. We then utilize human computation for classifying search strings. Leveraging these resources, we construct a tracking model of ILI prevalence that outperforms strong historical benchmarks using only a limited stream of search data and lends itself to tracking ILI in smaller geographic units. While this paper only addresses searches related to ILI, the method we describe has potential for tracking a broad set of phenomena in near real-time.
title: Unique and Overlapping Actions of Type I and III IFNs in Influenza A Virus Infection and Implications for Therapy
Creators: name: Davidson, Sophia Kate
Publisher: name: The Open University
Year: 2016

description: Influenza A virus (IAV) poses a significant public health burden. Severe disease is characterised by infected lung airway epithelial cells (AECs), inflammation and tissue damage. However, disease severity differs between individuals and this cannot be entirely explained by inter-individual differences in pre-existing immunity or comorbidities. Host-specific, genetically determined factors must contribute to susceptibility. Type I interferon (IFNαβ) is known to have antiviral function in vitro, but its role in restricting IAV infection in vivo is controversial. We demonstrate that responsiveness to IFNαβ signalling is a host-specific determinant with protective or pathogenic potential which determines the severity of IAV-induced disease. IAV infected 129, CBA/J and DBA mouse strains showed dramatically increased mortality and lung damage, yet higher levels of pulmonary IFNαβ, compared to C57BL/6 or BALB/C mice. Ablation of IFNαβR signalling in 129 mice markedly reduced mortality, levels of proinflammatory cytokines, inflammatory cell recruitment and AEC apoptosis. Susceptibility to IAV-induced disease is influenced by the number of functional alleles for the IFNαβR subunit, IFNAR1, within the genome. IFNAR1+/-(129) mice were less susceptible than wild type 129s yet more so than IFNαβR-/-(129) mice. Conversely, triplication of a section of murine chromosome 16 that includes IFNAR1 in C57BL/6 mice enhanced IFNα response to IAV infection and downstream immunopathology. Finally, IFNα therapy of infected B6. A2G-Mxl mice reduced IAV titers, yet increased secretion of proinflammatory cytokines, innate cell recruitment and AEC apoptosis in the lung, due to the potent immunostimulatory capability to IFNα. In contrast, treatment with IFNλ, whose receptor is largely restricted to AECs, promoted IAV control without exacerbating IAV-induced inflammation. Thus, by manipulating the IFNαβ signal in various ways, we demonstrate that excessive IFNαβ in IAV infection can increase AEC death and enhance proinflammatory responses that ultimately increase disease severity. Our findings have important implications for prediction and treatment of severe influenza.
Cooperation among Ugandan farmers: cultivating social capital
Creators: name: Morrow, J.L.
name: Joyce, Richard Patrick
name: McMahon, William J.
name: DeMaia, Antonio M.
name: McVicker, S. Caleb
name: Parsons, Ashley E.
name: Wilcox, Kristin
name: Morrow, J.L.
name: Joyce, Richard Patrick
name: McMahon, William J.
name: DeMaia, Antonio M.
name: McVicker, S. Caleb
name: Parsons, Ashley E.
name: Wilcox, Kristin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Farm Management
subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: farmer cooperative formation
subject: Uganda
subject: social capital
subject: social benefits

description: A survey was administered to 183 Ugandan farmers in August 2014 to assess the factors that influence their willingness to become members of a proposed new agricultural cooperative. In particular, we were interested in a better understanding of how farmers viewed the social benefits associated with cooperation. These social benefits have the potential to become valuable sources of social capital. Four valid and reliable measures of social benefits were identified. Social benefits that farmers may use to get by (bonding networks) had two dimensions: emotional support and social support. Social benefits that farmers may use to get ahead (bridging networks) also had two dimensions: tangible and intangible resource sharing. The desire to gain these social benefits from cooperation (except for emotional support) emerged as strong predictors of farmers’ willingness to cooperate in a proposed new agricultural cooperative. Surprisingly, the expected economic benefits of cooperation did not have a significant effect on willingness to cooperate. Implications and suggestions for future research and cooperative development and management are also discussed.
description: Supplemental material appended to article.
Dark-in-Bright Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates with Attractive Interactions
Creators: name: Kevrekidis, P. G.
name: Frantzeskakis, D. J.
name: Malomed, Boris A.
name: Bishop, A. R.
name: Kevrekidis, I. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a possibility to generate localized states in effectively one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates with a negative scattering length in the form of a dark soliton in the presence of an optical lattice (OL) and/or a parabolic magnetic trap. We connect such structures with twisted localized modes (TLMs) that were previously found in the discrete nonlinear Schr{ö}dinger equation. Families of these structures are found as functions of the OL strength, tightness of the magnetic trap, and chemical potential, and their stability regions are identified. Stable bound states of two TLMs are also found. In the case when the TLMs are unstable, their evolution is investigated by means of direct simulations, demonstrating that they transform into large-amplitude fundamental solitons. An analytical approach is also developed, showing that two or several fundamental solitons, with the phase shift $π$ between adjacent ones, may form stable bound states, with parameters quite close to those of the TLMs revealed by simulations. TLM structures are found numerically and explained analytically also in the case when the OL is absent, the condensate being confined only by the magnetic trap.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures, New Journal of Physics (in press)
The mediated partnership model for sustainable coffee production: experiences from Indonesia
Creators: name: Wijaya, Atika
name: Glasbergen, Pieter
name: Mawardi, Surip
name: Wijaya, Atika
name: Glasbergen, Pieter
name: Mawardi, Surip
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: mediated partnership
subject: sustainable coffee
subject: collaborative governanace
subject: production network
subject: Indonesia

description: This study demonstrates how a bottom-up agricultural development project, rooted in the practices of the smallholders and their (local) networks, might relate to global sustainability standards and certification schemes. Such an initiative starts with the economic interests of the farmers and may result in sustainability certification afterwards. An approach was investigated to implement more sustainable coffee production at the local level in Indonesia – the Mediated Partnership Model (Motramed). We conceptualize this model, initiated by an Indonesian research institute, as a form of collaborative governance to create a new, more sustainable management practice. We particularly focus on four critical mechanisms in the partnering process: defining a common problem, building trust, exploring collaborative advantages, and establishing a leadership role. Empirical research was conducted in three regions: Bali, Flores, and Java. In conclusion, we define several critical factors that need to be addressed to further develop similar bottom-up partnerships for more varied agricultural commodities.
description: Supplemental material appended to this article.
Disordered Josephson Junctions of d-Wave Superconductors
Creators: name: Lueck, T.
name: Schwab, P.
name: Eckern, U.
name: Shelankov, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Josephson effect between weakly coupled d-wave superconductors within the quasiclassical theory, in particular, the influence of interface roughness on the current-phase relation and the critical current of mirror junctions and $45^\circ$ asymmetric junctions. For mirror junctions the temperature dependence of the critical current is non-monotonic in the limit of low roughness, but monotonic for very rough interfaces. For $45^\circ$ asymmetric junctions with a linear dimension much larger than the superconducting coherence length we find a $\sin(2ϕ)$-like current-phase relation, whereas for contacts on the scale of the coherence length or smaller the usual $\sinϕ$-like behavior is observed. Our results compare well with recent experimental observations.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures; accepted for publication in Phys. Rev. B
Exploring the applicability of a sustainable smallholder sourcing model in the black soybean case in Java
Creators: name: Sjauw-Koen-Fa, August R.
name: Blok, Vincent
name: Omta, Onno
name: Sjauw-Koen-Fa, August R.
name: Blok, Vincent
name: Omta, Onno
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Farm Management
subject: agribusiness
subject: CSR
subject: smallholder inclusion
subject: sustainable sourcing
subject: value chain

description: Food and agribusiness multinational enterprises are redesigning their sourcing strategies to tap into the underused food production potential of small-scale farms in a way that improve farmers’ livelihood. The problem is that current widely applied sourcing models do not include improvement of livelihood of the producers/farmers. The present article explores the applicability of a sustainable smallholder sourcing model with a list of critical success factors, in which business objectives and corporate social responsibility perspectives are combined. To this end, the black soybean supply chain in Java/Indonesia is studied. It was found that the black soybean case can be conceptualized by the sourcing model. Most of the critical success factors were present, but also some differences were identified. The differences enable to fine-tune some critical success factors. The sustainable sourcing model can help in (re-)designing sourcing strategies to secure sustainable and more equitable supply from small-scale farmers from a business perspective.
description: Supplemental material appended to this article.
Understanding the determinants of adoption of enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology within the agri- food context: the case of the Midwest of Brazil
Creators: name: Haberli, Caetano
name: Oliveira, Tiago
name: Yanaze, Mitsuru
name: Haberli, Caetano
name: Oliveira, Tiago
name: Yanaze, Mitsuru
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Agribusiness
subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Research Methods/ Statistical Methods
subject: enterprise resources planning
subject: ERP technology
subject: management models
subject: agribusiness

description: The object of this study is to investigate the determinants of adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) technology in agricultural farms located in the Central-West region of Brazil. The data was collected from 200 in-depth interviews with soy, corn and cotton farmers from the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil. Structural Equations methodology was used to analyze the data and hypothesis. The conceptual model was proposed by combining Diffusion of Innovations and Technology-Organization-Environment theories. The results provide information to agribusiness owners, managers and administrators to promote and incentivize the use of ERP. Politicians and farmers can evaluate each scenario and support their political and administrative decisions through the evaluation of socioeconomic and environmental performances of agricultural exploration as a result of technological innovation. This leads to a need for an analytical tool for the farmers, with the objective of supporting the adoption of optimized ERP for agri-food activities.
Comparative ab initio study of the structural, electronic, magnetic, and dynamical properties of LiOsO$_3$ and NaOsO$_3$
Creators: name: Liu, Peitao
name: He, Jiangang
name: Kim, Bongjae
name: Khmelevskyi, Sergii
name: Toschi, Alessandro
name: Kresse, Georg
name: Franchini, Cesare
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Despite similar chemical compositions, LiOsO$_3$ and NaOsO$_3$ exhibit remarkably distinct structural, electronic, magnetic, and spectroscopic properties. At low temperature, LiOsO$_3$ is a polar bad metal with a rhombohedral $R3c$ structure without the presence of long-range magnetic order, whereas NaOsO$_3$ is a $G$-type antiferromagnetic insulator with an orthorhombic $Pnma$ structure. By means of comparative first-principles DFT+$U$ calculations with the inclusion of the spin-orbit coupling, we ($i$) identify the origin of the different structural ($R3c$ vs. $Pnma$) properties using a symmetry-adapted soft mode analysis, ($ii$) provide evidence that all considered exchange-correlation functionals (LDA, PBE, PBEsol, SCAN, and HSE06) and the spin disordered polymorphous descriptions are unsatisfactory to accurately describe the electronic and magnetic properties of both systems simultaneously, and ($iii$) clarify that the distinct electronic (metallic vs. insulating) properties originates mainly from a cooperative steric and magnetic effect. Finally, we find that although at ambient pressure LiOsO$_3$ with a $Pnma$ symmetry and NaOsO$_3$ with a $R\bar{3}c$ symmetry are energetically unfavorable, they do not show soft phonons and therefore are dynamically stable. A pressure-induced structural phase transition from $R3c$ to $Pnma$ for LiOsO$_3$ is predicted, whereas for NaOsO$_3$ no symmetry change is discerned in the considered pressure range.
description: 9 pages, 9 figures
Promoting education, awareness and participation : composting at UBC
Creators: name: Chan, Cornelia
name: Fu, Linda
name: Jackson, Sarah
name: Lee, Venus
name: Mensink, Desiree
name: Sacks, Ashley
name: Vogt, Anja
Publisher: name: The University of British Columbia
Year: 2014

description: Since UBC implemented the Organics Collection Program, UBC Waste Management has been challenged by the lack of awareness about composting on campus, the contamination of compost bins and the maintenance of the bin sites. An evaluation of the current compost program at UBC has shown that In-Vessel composting has many benefits at the University; however, the system is not being used to its full potential. The vision statement developed by the UBC Food System Project partners was applied to help examine the current compost program at UBC and has been used to help set goals towards a more sustainable food system on campus. Primary research, including a survey of bin sites, a review of existing educational tools, and communication with UBC Waste Management representatives, revealed that some of the barriers to composting on campus include lack of consumer awareness and poor placement and marking of bins. A review of secondary resources on community composting introduced the idea of Community-based Social Marketing (CSM) to encourage individuals to adopt environmental friendly behaviour. From the research, the group members identified a need to create and use educational tools more effectively. Therefore, the group created a new composting document informed by their primary and secondary research. The new document contains information on the benefits of composting, outlines how people can get involved in the compost program at UBC and is based on CSM theories. Recommendations have been compiled for key stakeholders and for next year’s AGSC 450 students and budget requirements have been estimated. Disclaimer: “UBC SEEDS provides students with the opportunity to share the findings of their studies, as well as their opinions, conclusions and recommendations with the UBC community. The reader should bear in mind that this is a student project/report and is not an official document of UBC. Furthermore readers should bear in mind that these reports may not reflect the current status of activities at UBC. We urge you to contact the research persons mentioned in a report or the SEEDS Coordinator about the current status of the subject matter of a project/report.”
Importanța ghidajului ecografic în toracocenteză
Creators: name: MUNTEAN, PETRU EMIL
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Ecografia asigură puncţia pleurală „la vedere”, si poate fi efectuată în două modalităţi: prin marcaj ecoghidat sau prin ecoghidare directă. Există mai multe indicații pentru folosirea ecografiei pleurale, grupate în două categorii: scop diagnostic şi terapeutic. Ultrasonografia este substanțial mai bună decât examinarea fizică în selecția locului pentru puncţie. Ecografia trebuie utilizată în toate cazurile atunci când echipamentul adecvat este disponibil dar și experiența operatorului este pe măsură. Ecografia toracică este deosebit de utilă ca instrument de diagnosticare pentru pacientul critic, deoarece pot fi constatate informații diagnostice privind pneumotoraxul, consolidarea pulmonară, revărsatul pleural și edemul pulmonar. În plus, ultrasonografia pleurală a demonstrat o sensibilitate superioară comparativ cu radiografia toracică în detectarea prezenței lichidului pleural și a pneumotoraxului și în diferențierea lichidului pleural de consolidarea pulmonară. Ultrasunetele folosite la nivel toracic pot furniza informații clinice importante, valoarea acestora depinde de experiența operatorului pentru obținerea și interpretarea corectă a imaginii. O instruire completă și supravegheată este necesară pentru a asigura interpretarea corectă a rezultatelor sonografice.
Beyond the Quasi-Particle picture in Nuclear Matter calculations using Green's function techniques
Creators: name: Kohler, H. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Widths of low-lying states in nuclei are of the order of 30 MeV. These large widths are a consequence of the strong interactions leading to a strongly correlated many body system at the typical densities of nuclear matter. Nevertheless "traditional" Brueckner calculations treat these states as quasiparticles i.e. with spectral functions of zero widths. The width is related to the imaginary part of the selfenergy and is included selfconsistently in an extension of the Brueckner theory using T-matrix and Green's function techniques. A more general formulation applicable also to non-equilibrium systems is contained in the Kadanoff-Baym (KB) equations while still maintaining the basic many-body techniques of Bruecknet theory. In the present work the two-time KB-equations are time-stepped along the imaginary time-axis to calculate the binding energy of nuclear matter as a function of density, including the spectral widths self-consistently. These zero temperature calculations are compared with quasi-particle calculations. The inclusion of the self-consistent widths are found to add several MeV to the binding. The spectral widths are due to the long-ranged correlations. Short-ranged correlations decrease rather than increase the binding. The metod is easily extended to non-zero temperatures where the importance of the widths are expected to increase.
description: 5 pages 4 figures Submitted to Proceedings: Progress in Nonequilibrium Green's Functions III 22-26 August, University Kiel, Germany
Additional file 1 of Decreased mitochondrial D-loop region methylation mediates an increase in mitochondrial DNA copy number in CADASIL
Creators: name: Zhang, Jiewen
name: Shang, Junkui
name: Wang, Fengyu
name: Huo, Xuejing
name: Sun, Ruihua
name: Ren, Zhixia
name: Wang, Wan
name: Yang, Miaomiao
name: Li, Gai
name: Gao, Dandan
name: Liu, Ruijie
name: Bai, Pingping
name: Wang, Shuyi
name: Wang, Yanliang
name: Yan, Xi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Table S1. The sequence of primer for mtDNAcn detection. Table S2. The associations between CADASIL and mtDNAcn in different adjusted models. Table S3. The associations between CADASIL and D-loop methylation levels in different adjusted models. Table S4. The associations between mtDNAcn and D-loop methylation levels in different adjusted models.
title: Intrathyroidal ectopic thymus mimicking a thyroid nodule
Creators: name: Choayb, Safaa
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Paediatric radiology
subject: Paediatric
subject: Thyroid / Parathyroids
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 9-year-old boy, with no significant past medical history, was referred to the pediatric radiology department for suspecting cervical lymph nodes.  

description: 9 years, male
title: Childhood extremities soft tissue mass
Creators: name: Delgado Fernández, Laura
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Paediatric radiology
subject: Extremities
subject: Musculoskeletal soft tissue
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 3-year-old boy was admitted to our hospital referring a painless lump on the dorsum of the left foot, between the base of the first and second metatarsals, during the past 14 months.  The swelling caused gait impairment for the last few weeks. No trauma injury was recorded.

description: 3 years, male
Polaron Crossover and Bipolaronic Metal-Insulator Transition in the half- filled Holstein model
Creators: name: Capone, M.
name: Ciuchi, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The formation of a finite density multipolaronic state is analyzed in the context of the Holstein model using the Dynamical Mean-Field Theory. The spinless and spinful fermion cases are compared to disentangle the polaron crossover from the bipolaron formation. The exact solution of Dynamical Mean-Field Theory is compared with weak-coupling perturbation theory, non-crossing (Migdal), and vertex correction approximations. We show that polaron formation is not associated to a metal-insulator transition, which is instead due to bipolaron formation.
description: 4 pages, 5 figures
Instrumental processes, entropies, information in quantum continual measurements
Creators: name: Barchielli, Alberto
name: Lupieri, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we will give a short presentation of the quantum Levy-Khinchin formula and of the formulation of quantum continual measurements based on stochastic differential equations, matters which we had the pleasure to work on in collaboration with Prof. Holevo. Then we will begin the study of various entropies and relative entropies, which seem to be promising quantities for measuring the information content of the continual measurement under consideration and for analysing its asymptotic behaviour.
description: 15 pages, requires Rinton-P9x6.cls. For the volume on the occasion of Alexander Holevo's 60th birthday
Statutory payment provisions, adjudication process and enforcement proceedings in the construction industry of the United Kingdom and New South Wales: a comparative legal analysis from the perspective of mitigating the injustice caused by adjudication’s pseudo-temporary nature
Creators: name: Meliniotis, Charalampos
Publisher: name: University of Leicester
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This thesis involves a comparative study between Part II of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (HGCRA) of the United Kingdom (UK) and the Building and Construction Industry Security of Payment Act 1999 (BCISPA(NSW)) of the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW). It argues that HGCRA and BCISPA(NSW), and in fact every legislation introducing statutory payment provisions and adjudication in a jurisdiction, suffer from a common problem. That is, in tackling the injustice caused by the advantages that one party can get from delaying dispute resolution, the legislation creates a different kind of injustice caused by adjudication’s ‘pseudo-temporary’ nature. This thesis aims to recommend how to better resolve this problem.
This thesis uses the term ‘pseudo-temporary’ to describe the phenomenon whereby an adjudicator’s decision is in practice final, albeit in principle temporary. Injustice arises when the cause of this phenomenon is the insolvency, or the risk of intervening insolvency, of (usually) the winning party in an adjudication before the conclusion of subsequent arbitration or litigation (other than adjudication enforcement proceedings) and actual repayment of any sums ordered, thereby deterring the other party from pursuing such proceedings.
Chapter One reviews the legislation’s purpose. Chapter Two expounds on this phenomenon of adjudication’s pseudo-temporary nature and examines possible countermeasures. It argues that this problem is better resolved through statutory intervention, amending the legislation to the version that promotes the highest degree of procedural justice whilst preserving its speed.This thesis then comparatively analyses the components forming HGCRA’s and BCISPA(NSW)’s three fundamental pillars, namely, statutory payment provisions including remedies available for non-payment or under-certification (Chapters Three to Five), adjudication process (Chapters Six and Seven) and enforcement proceedings of an adjudicator’s decision (Chapter Eight), recommending the version that promotes the highest degree of procedural justice whilst preserving the legislation’s speed.
Extended Lifetime in Computational Evolution of Isolated Black Holes
Creators: name: Anderson, Matthew
name: Matzner, Richard A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solving the 4-d Einstein equations as evolution in time requires solving equations of two types: the four elliptic initial data (constraint) equations, followed by the six second order evolution equations. Analytically the constraint equations remain solved under the action of the evolution, and one approach is to simply monitor them ({\it unconstrained} evolution). The problem of the 3-d computational simulation of even a single isolated vacuum black hole has proven to be remarkably difficult. Recently, we have become aware of two publications that describe very long term evolution, at least for single isolated black holes. An essential feature in each of these results is {\it constraint subtraction}. Additionally, each of these approaches is based on what we call "modern," hyperbolic formulations of the Einstein equations. It is generally assumed, based on computational experience, that the use of such modern formulations is essential for long-term black hole stability. We report here on comparable lifetime results based on the much simpler ("traditional") $\dot g$ - $\dot K$ formulation. We have also carried out a series of {\it constrained} 3-d evolutions of single isolated black holes. We find that constraint solution can produce substantially stabilized long-term single hole evolutions. However, we have found that for large domains, neither constraint-subtracted nor constrained $\dot g$ - $\dot K$ evolutions carried out in Cartesian coordinates admit arbitrarily long-lived simulations. The failure appears to arise from features at the inner excision boundary; the behavior does generally improve with resolution.
description: 20 pages, 6 figures
Kinematic model inversions of hot star recurrent DAC data - tests against dynamical CIR models
Creators: name: Krticka, J.
name: Barrett, R. K.
name: Brown, J. C.
name: Owocki, S. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Discrete Absorption Components (DACs) commonly observed in the ultraviolet lines of hot stars have previously been modelled by dynamical simulations of Corotating Interaction Regions (CIRs) in their line-driven stellar winds. Here we apply the kinematic DAC inversion method of Brown et al. to the hydrodynamical CIR models and test the reliability of the results obtained. We conclude that the inversion method is able to recover valuable information on the velocity structure of the mean wind and to trace movement of velocity plateaux in the hydrodynamical data, though the recovered density profile of the stream is correct only very near to the stellar surface.
description: Accepted for publication in A&A; 8 pages
Initial Design Strategies and their Effects on Sequential Model-Based Optimization
Creators: name: Bossek, Jakob
name: Doerr, Carola
name: Kerschke, Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Sequential model-based optimization (SMBO) approaches are algorithms for solving problems that require computationally or otherwise expensive function evaluations. The key design principle of SMBO is a substitution of the true objective function by a surrogate, which is used to propose the point(s) to be evaluated next. SMBO algorithms are intrinsically modular, leaving the user with many important design choices. Significant research efforts go into understanding which settings perform best for which type of problems. Most works, however, focus on the choice of the model, the acquisition function, and the strategy used to optimize the latter. The choice of the initial sampling strategy, however, receives much less attention. Not surprisingly, quite diverging recommendations can be found in the literature. We analyze in this work how the size and the distribution of the initial sample influences the overall quality of the efficient global optimization~(EGO) algorithm, a well-known SMBO approach. While, overall, small initial budgets using Halton sampling seem preferable, we also observe that the performance landscape is rather unstructured. We furthermore identify several situations in which EGO performs unfavorably against random sampling. Both observations indicate that an adaptive SMBO design could be beneficial, making SMBO an interesting test-bed for automated algorithm design.
description: To appear in Proc. of ACM Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO'20)
Additional file 1 of Drug delivery of 6-bromoindirubin-3’-glycerol-oxime ether employing poly(d,l-lactide-co-glycolide)-based nanoencapsulation techniques with sustainable solvents
Creators: name: Czapka, Anna
name: Grune, Christian
name: Schädel, Patrick
name: Bachmann, Vivien
name: Scheuer, Karl
name: Dirauf, Michael
name: Weber, Christine
name: Skaltsounis, Alexios-Leandros
name: Jandt, Klaus D.
name: Schubert, Ulrich S.
name: Fischer, Dagmar
name: Werz, Oliver
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplemental information, figures and tables.
Engaging adult learners in the learning process via accelerated learning : Andragogical approach
Creators: name: Mohamed, Noor Hassline
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 50203 Environmental Education and Extension
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 130311 Pacific Peoples Education
subject: Education
subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators
subject: 130101 Continuing and Community Education
subject: 130108 Technical, Further and Workplace Education
subject: 130213 Vocational Education and Training Curriculum and Pedagogy

description: This study attempts to examine the effectiveness of accelerated learning with andragogical approach in engaging adult learners in the learning process. 20 learners of undergraduate psychology programmes from Open University Malaysia (OUM) are involved in the study. The approach of accelerated learning in the study incorporates the five aspects, include, create an interesting learning environment, create an emotional connection by using visuals, creatively present by using colours and sounds, activate and integrate leaners through fun activity such as interactive quiz, sms mobile learning, multisensory activities such as problem solving activities, exercises and learning games, and finally, motivate learners to engage actively in learning process. The accelerated learning is implemented in face-to-face tutorial sessions and online forums. The result of the study is useful in understanding adult learners’ interests in an open and distance learning institutions.
title: The Housing Finance System in Italy and Spain
title: Why did a housing bubble develop in Spain – and not in Italy
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Bulbarelli, Miriam
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften::330 Wirtschaft

description: The international financial crisis, which started in the United States at the end of 2007, hit Europe soon afterwards. Its impact on the old continent has been e normous. A number of country -specific crises were triggered, especially in the European periphery. This essay will focus on two countries, which were affected particularly severely: Spain and Italy. In Spain, the global financial crisis was worsened by the burst of the housing bubble, which had inflated the cost of housing during the early 2000s. In Italy, in contrast, pre -existing problems with the management of high public debt, long -term stagnation in labour productivity and low government credibility made its economy vulnerable to the financial crisis. Though both countries had different experiences dealing with the global crisis, Italian and Spanish structural and economic features are largely comparable and both countries experienced an economic boom s ince the 2000s, especially in the housing sector. Yet, Italy did not witness a housing boom turning into a bubble and its consequences, a steep correction of housing prices – the “bust” – , whereas Spain is still recovering from it. This paper attempts to analyze the reason for this discrepancy.