cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Introducing the Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (DORI) Using the Demographic and Health Surveys Data from sub-Saharan Africa
Creators: name: Ansong, D.
name: Okumu, M.
name: Koomson, I.
Publisher: name: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Year: 2022

description: Although most studies on disease emergencies underscore the need for household readiness for shocks associated with disease outbreaks, no study to date has provided a holistic measure for profiling households based on their readiness toward disease outbreaks. This paper introduces a novel Disease Outbreak Resilience Index (DORI) using a multidimensional approach that draws on the Alkire-Foster methodology. DORI measures disease outbreak resilience in four dimensions: (a) water and hygiene, (b) physical distancing, (c) energy and communication, and (d) economic security and resilience. The paper details the development of DORI and its use by presenting findings from ten countries in sub-Saharan Africa using data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) program. In addition to serving as a resilience index, we illustrate how DORI can be used to produce a disease outbreak vulnerability index (DOVI). As a versatile index, the indicators under each dimension can be tailored to meet country- and region-specific contexts based on indicators appropriate to each context.
Musiké, logos és a deinon: a többszólamú próza születése a szofisták szelleméből Tragikus história: Aischylos, Sophoklés és Thukydidés
Creators: name: Mezosi, Miklos
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Classical Greek literature
History and poetics of Genres
Greek tragedy
Greek historiography
Rhetoric :
Sophistry

description: A tanulmány középpontjában három olyan fogalom áll, amelyek együttesen döntő szerepet játszottak az irodalom történeti evolúciójában. A zene és irodalom kapcsolatának, valamint a (drámai) költészet prózába merülésének a leírására a musiké, ill. a logos, valamint harmadikként a kettő közös szorításában lévő deinon („rettenetes, félelmetes”) szavak látszanak alkalmasnak. A musiké és a logos a bekövetkező deinont létrehozó kooperatív poétikáját Aischylos Agamemnónjának „operajelenetén” mutatom meg. Sophoklés egyik kardalának a kulcsszava, a deinos melléknév (újra)értelmezésével pedig beláthatóvá válik a műfajok evolúciójának azon szakasza, amelyiken a dráma (tragédia) előkészíti a terepet a próza számára. A legelső prózai műfaj szükségképpen a történetírás, mivel egyedül ez képes a tragédia lényegi jegyeinek „produktív átmentésére”. Ez nem a Homéros módjára „mesélő” Hérodotos, hanem a görög világképben a Kr. e. 5. század derekától beálló változásokra új művészi eszközökkel reflektáló irodalomtörténeti fordulatot képviselő Thukydidés történetírása. Darien Shanske, aki a deinont az attikai tragédia meghatározó jegyeként írja le („az önmagán túllépő, a logosszal szorosan összetartozó sorscsapásra vonatkozik”), a fogalmat a thukydidési történetírás központi kategóriájává is megteszi. A görög történetírás műfajgenetikai szerepére és az 5. századi „szofista fordulattal” való lényegi kapcsolatának irodalomtörténeti relevanciájára szeretnék rávilágítani. A „History” mint műfaj jelentőségét nem lehet eléggé hangsúlyozni: a történetírással születik meg nemcsak a próza, hanem a modern értelemben vett „irodalom” is. Az orális beállítottságú irodalom a történetírással változik írott és olvasott irodalommá.
Geographies of an online social network
Creators: name: Lengyel, Balázs
name: Varga, Attila
name: Ságvári, Bence
name: Jakobi, Ákos
name: Kertész, János
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: How is online social media activity structured in the geographical space? Recent studies have shown that in spite of earlier visions about the "death of distance", physical proximity is still a major factor in social tie formation and maintenance in virtual social networks. Yet, it is unclear, what are the characteristics of the distance dependence in online social networks. In order to explore this issue the complete network of the former major Hungarian online social network is analyzed. We find that the distance dependence is weaker for the online social network ties than what was found earlier for phone communication networks. For a further analysis we introduced a coarser granularity: We identified the settlements with the nodes of a network and assigned two kinds of weights to the links between them. When the weights are proportional to the number of contacts we observed weakly formed, but spatially based modules resembling to the borders of macro-regions, the highest level of regional administration in the country. If the weights are defined relative to an uncorrelated null model, the next level of administrative regions, counties are reflected.
description: 19 pages pdf file. Minor changes mainly about users abroad plus maps redrawn
Covariant mutually unbiased bases
Creators: name: Carmeli, Claudio
name: Schultz, Jussi
name: Toigo, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81S30, 81S05, 20C25, 12E20

description: The connection between maximal sets of mutually unbiased bases (MUBs) in a prime-power dimensional Hilbert space and finite phase-space geometries is well known. In this article we classify MUBs according to their degree of covariance with respect to the natural symmetries of a finite phase-space, which are the group of its affine symplectic transformations. We prove that there exist maximal sets of MUBs that are covariant with respect to the full group only in odd prime-power dimensional spaces, and in this case their equivalence class is actually unique. Despite this limitation, we show that in even-prime power dimension covariance can still be achieved by restricting to proper subgroups of the symplectic group, that constitute the finite analogues of the oscillator group. For these subgroups, we explicitly construct the unitary operators yielding the covariance.
description: 44 pages, some remarks and references added in v2
English language teaching during the Covid-19 outbreak: A bibliometric analysis
Creators: name: Syahid, Abdul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: English Instruction
Covid 19
Bibliometrics

description: Presented in the 2020 INACELT, Palangka Raya, October 21 - 22, 2020.
description: {"references": ["Barrot, J. S. (2017). Research impact and productivity of Southeast Asian countries in language and linguistics. Scientometrics, 110(1), 1\u201315. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-016-2163-3", "Eck, N. J. van, & Waltman, L. (2020). VOSviewer (Version 1.6.15). Leiden: Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS) of Leiden University.", "Harzing, A. W. (2007). Publish or Perish. Retrieved from https://harzing.com/resources/publish-or-perish", "Kent, A. (1962). The End of the World [Recorded by S. Davis]. Nashville, Tennessee: RCA Victor.", "Lei, L., & Liu, D. (2019a). Research trends in applied linguistics from 2005 to 2016: A bibliometric analysis and its implications. Applied Linguistics, 40(3), 540\u2013561. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amy003", "Lei, L., & Liu, D. (2019b). The research trends and contributions of System's publications over the past four decades (1973\u20132017): A bibliometric analysis. System, 80, 1\u201313. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.system.2018.10.003", "OECD, & SCImago Research Group (CSIC). (2016). Compendium of Bibliometric Science Indicators. Paris: OECD. Retrieved from http://oe.cd/scientometrics", "Syahid, A., & Qodir, A. (in press). Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies: A fifteen-year bibliometric quest for a bigger impact. Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies. Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4090430", "Zhang, X. (2020). A bibliometric analysis of Second Language Acquisition between 1997 and 2018. Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 42(1), 199\u2013222. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0272263119000573"]}
Harmonizing longitudinal and survival data using a joint-modeling framework: An efficient approach to assessing social interventions
Creators: name: Brevard, K.C.
name: Chen, D.-G.
name: Bo, A.
name: Ansong, D.
name: Okumu, M.
Publisher: name: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2021

description: Objective: This article is an exposition of the joint-modeling approach to testing intervention effects through the harmonization of longitudinal and timeto- event data. We demonstrate the advantages of the joint-modeling approach over the classical approach of separately analyzing these types of outcome data. Method: We used a subset of 150 participants from the Illinois Birth through Three Title IV-E Waiver intervention study, which collected longitudinal Devereux Early Childhood Assessment for Infants and Toddlers (DECA-I/T) scores and time-to-permanence data for up to 3 years. We ran and contrasted three competing models: Cox proportional hazard, linear mixed-effects, and joint modeling. Results: If analyzed separately, the DECA-I/T scores are highly nonsignificantly related to time to permanence (p 5:929). However, when analyzed jointly, the significance level drops 88 percentage points, from.929 to.105. Because of its efficiency in addressing information loss when longitudinal and survival data are incorporated together, the joint model properly accounts for outcome-dependent missingness. Conclusion: This article highlights the utility of joint modeling in randomized longitudinal intervention studies by demonstrating its ability to preserve information from both longitudinal and time-to-event data, produce unbiased estimates, and retain higher statistical power than the traditional approach.
Addressing the Burden of Education Financing in Low and Lower-Middle-Income Countries: The Role of Savings Accounts, Cash Transfers, and Other Income Sources
Creators: name: Ansong, D.
name: Otchere, F.
name: Sherraden, M.
name: Okumu, M.
name: Koomson, I.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2021

description: Cost-sharing between governments and families remains a strategic part of many governments’ post-secondary education funding policies in low-income countries. This shift to more cost-sharing raises questions about how households meet their contributions to post-secondary schooling costs. This study uses data from the World Bank’s Global Financial Inclusion survey and World Development Indicators to examine how savings account ownership, cash transfers, and other forms of income shape families’ decisions about education financing in 59 low and lower-middle-income countries. Results from generalized hierarchical linear modeling and logistic regression models show that individuals with savings accounts are more likely to dedicate resources to educational purposes than those without accounts. Other forms of income (cash transfers excepted) also predict an individual’s likelihood of earmarking savings for education to a lesser degree. Our findings offer compelling evidence that greater access to formal savings services may provide a viable long-term strategy to help families prepare financially for their children’s future education. These findings may inform future programs that promote financial inclusion and expand access to formal savings services to help individuals and families save for their children’s education.
On-orbit calibration of soft X-ray detector on Chang'E-2 satellite
Creators: name: Xiao, Hong
name: Penga, Wenxi
name: Wang, Huanyu
name: Cui, Xingzhu
name: Guo, Dongya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: X-ray spectrometer is one of the satellite payloads on Chang'E-2 satellite. The soft X-ray detector is one of the device on X-ray spectrometer which is designed to detect the major rock-forming elements within 0.5-10keV range on lunar surface. In this paper, energy linearity and energy resolution calibration is done using a weak Fe55 source, while temperature and time effect is considered not take big error. The total uncertainty is estimated to be within 5% after correction.
description: 6 pages,6 figure
Necessitous men are not free men: the political theory of the New Deal
Creators: name: Stipelman, Brian Eric
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Little attention has been paid to the political theory that informs the New Deal, despite the impressive amount of research devoted to the period. This is of particular importance since the alleged lack of theory means there is little philosophic justification for the American welfare state on its own terms. This dissertation synthesizes a political theory of the New Deal from the writings of Franklin Roosevelt, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Wallace, and Thurman Arnold. The theory highlights the need for the public accountability of private economic power, arguing that when the private economic realm is unable to adequately guarantee the rights of citizens the state must intervene to protect those rights. The New Deal created a new American social contract that accorded our right to the pursuit of happiness a status equal to liberty, and ground both in an expansive idea of security (with physical, material, and psychic components) as the necessary precondition for the exercise of either. This was connected to a theory of the common good that privileged the consumer as the central category while simultaneously working to limit the worst excesses of consumption-oriented individualism. This theory of ends was supplemented by a theory of practice that focused on ways to institutionalize progressive politics in a conservative institutional context. It focuses in particular on Thurman Arnold’s theory of symbolic politics. Arnold argues that any progressive change must be grounded in the ‘folklore’ of the institutions it wishes to supplant.This project has two further goals. The first argues that political theory needs to greater focus on the moment of political engagement. Unless a theory is integrated into a political context that focuses on the restraints upon and possibilities of agency facing the relevant actors the theory is engaged primarily in moral critique. Finally, it argues that contemporary progressives should appropriate the theory of the New Deal to use as the theoretical framework for arguments seeking to defend and expand the American welfare state.
Search for Dark Photons with the FASER detector at the LHC
Creators: name: Abreu, Henso
name: Anders, John
name: Antel, Claire
name: Ariga, Akitaka
name: Ariga, Tomoko
name: Atkinson, Jeremy
name: Bernlochner, Florian U.
name: Boeckh, Tobias
name: Boyd, Jamie
name: Brenner, Lydia
name: Cadoux, Franck
name: Casper, David W.
name: Cavanagh, Charlotte
name: Chen, Xin
name: Coccaro, Andrea
name: D'Onofrio, Monica
name: Desai, Ansh
name: Dmitrievsky, Sergey
name: Dozen, Candan
name: Favre, Yannick
name: Fellers, Deion
name: Feng, Jonathan L.
name: Fenoglio, Carlo Alberto
name: Ferrere, Didier
name: Galon, Iftah
name: Gibson, Stephen
name: Gonzalez-Sevilla, Sergio
name: Gornushkin, Yuri
name: Gwilliam, Carl
name: Hayakawa, Daiki
name: Hsu, Shih-Chieh
name: Hu, Zhen
name: Iacobucci, Giuseppe
name: Inada, Tomohiro
name: Jakobsen, Sune
name: Joos, Hans
name: Kajomovitz, Enrique
name: Kawahara, Hiroaki
name: Keyken, Alex
name: Kling, Felix
name: Köck, Daniela
name: Kose, Umut
name: Kotitsa, Rafaella
name: Kuehn, Susanne
name: Lefebvre, Helena
name: Levinson, Lorne
name: Li, Ke
name: Liu, Jinfeng
name: MacDonald, Jack
name: Magliocca, Chiara
name: Martinelli, Fulvio
name: McFayden, Josh
name: Meehan, Sam
name: Milanesio, Matteo
name: Moretti, Théo
name: Munker, Magdalena
name: Nakamura, Mitsuhiro
name: Nakano, Toshiyuki
name: Neuhaus, Friedemann
name: Nevay, Laurie
name: Ohashi, Ken
name: Otono, Hidetoshi
name: Pang, Hao
name: Paolozzi, Lorenzo
name: Petersen, Brian
name: Prim, Markus
name: Queitsch-Maitland, Michaela
name: Rokujo, Hiroki
name: Ruiz-Choliz, Elisa
name: Sabater-Iglesias, Jorge
name: Salfeld-Nebgen, Jakob
name: Sato, Osamu
name: Scampoli, Paola
name: Schmieden, Kristof
name: Schott, Matthias
name: Sfyrla, Anna
name: Shively, Savannah
name: Takubo, Yosuke
name: Tarannum, Noshin
name: Theiner, Ondrej
name: Torrence, Eric
name: Trojanowski, Sebastian
name: Vasina, Svetlana
name: Vormwald, Benedikt
name: Wang, Di
name: Welch, Eli
name: Zahorec, Samuel
name: Zambito, Stefano
name: FASER Collaboration
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: vertex, primary
gauge boson, massive
p p, scattering
photon
CERN LHC Coll
U(1)
ATLAS
electron positron
TeV

description: The FASER experiment at the LHC is designed to search for light, weakly-interacting particles produced in proton-proton collisions at the ATLAS interaction point that travel in the far-forward direction. The first results from a search for dark photons decaying to an electron-positron pair, using a dataset corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 27.0 fb$^{-1}$ collected at center-of-mass energy $\sqrt{s} = 13.6$ TeV in 2022 in LHC Run 3, are presented. No events are seen in an almost background-free analysis, yielding world-leading constraints on dark photons with couplings $\epsilon \sim 2 \times 10^{-5} - 1 \times 10^{-4}$ and masses $\sim$ 17 MeV - 70 MeV. The analysis is also used to probe the parameter space of a massive gauge boson from a U(1)$_{B-L}$ model, with couplings $g_{B-L} \sim 5 \times 10^{-6} - 2 \times 10^{-5}$ and masses $\sim$ 15 MeV - 40 MeV excluded for the first time.
Theoretical concepts and measurement prospects for BSM trilinear couplings: a case study for scalar top quarks
Creators: name: Bahl, Henning
name: Braathen, Johannes
name: Weiglein, Georg
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 530
subject: particle: heavy
subject: effect: quantum
subject: Higgs particle: mass
subject: coupling: scalar
subject: renormalization
subject: interpretation of experiments: CERN LHC Coll
subject: sensitivity
subject: renormalization group

description: After the possible discovery of new heavy particles at the LHC, it will be crucial to determine the properties and the underlying physics of the new states. In this work, we focus on scalar trilinear couplings, employing as an example the case of the trilinear coupling of scalar partners of the top quark to the Higgs boson. We discuss possible strategies for experimentally determining the scalar top (stop) trilinear coupling parameter, which controls the stop–stop–Higgs interaction, and we demonstrate the impact of different renormalisation prescriptions for this parameter. We find that the best prospects for determining the stop trilinear coupling arise from its quantum effects entering the model prediction for the mass of the SM-like Higgs boson in comparison to the measured value. We point out that the prediction for the Higgs-boson mass has a high sensitivity to the stop trilinear coupling even for heavy masses of the non-standard particles. Regarding the renormalisation of the stop trilinear coupling we identify a renormalisation scheme that is preferred in view of the present level of accuracy and we clarify the source of potentially large logarithms that cannot be resummed with standard renormalisation group methods.
Uncounted costs: the Civil War's impact on an infantry company's men and their families
Creators: name: Heaney, Michael K.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: Much scholarship has focused on the experiences of soldiers in the American Civil War (1861-1865), and of those left behind on the home front. About 3 million men served in uniform during the war, and an even larger circle of family members – wives, parents, children, siblings – were significantly affected. Yet no significant body of scholarship has been devoted to describing the post-war lives of common soldiers or their loved ones. This work is a modest attempt to begin correcting that deficiency. It focuses on 100 volunteers who comprised a Union infantry company from rural New Jersey, and their family members. Relying primarily on information obtained from federal pension files, the study describes the lives these people led over the balance of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth. The work first portrays the region and times the men grew up in, compares the volunteers as a group with all men who served in the Union Army, and examines their motivations for going to war and their particular wartime experiences. This section concludes that the company was in most respects typical of the Union Army, except for suffering an unusually high casualty rate; more than 40% of its volunteers died from wounds or disease. (A high-casualty company was chosen intentionally for the study.) The work then investigates what can be determined about discrete aspects of the veterans’ and/or their family members’ post-war lives, including: health and longevity; domestic and marital patterns; residence and migration; work, income, and wealth accumulation; pension claiming; post-war adjustment issues and dysfunction; and veterans’ memories of the war, and the meanings they attributed to it. The work demonstrates that the life courses of the company’s surviving veterans, and of many of their loved ones (especially parents and wives), were generally difficult and economically tenuous, and often physically and/or emotionally painful. Though veterans and their wives displayed remarkable resilience and adaptability – many looking back with satisfaction at their wartime accomplishments and sacrifices - their post-war lives were frequently hard and sometimes bleak: war’s “uncounted costs”.
NNLO+PS $W^+W^-$ production using jet veto resummation at NNLL$'$
Creators: name: Gavardi, Alessandro
name: Lim, Matthew A.
name: Alioli, Simone
name: Tackmann, Frank
Publisher: name: Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron, DESY, Hamburg
Year: 2023
Subjects: jet, transverse momentum
higher-order, 2
parton, showers
Monte Carlo
resolution
resummation
background
ATLAS
CMS
strong coupling
soft collinear effective theory

description: We construct a novel event generator for the process $p \> p \to \ell^- \> \bar{\nu}_\ell \> \ell'^+ \> \nu_{\ell'}$, which matches fixed-order predictions at next-to-next-to-leading order in the strong coupling to a parton shower program. The matching is achieved using the GENEVA method, in this case exploiting a resummed calculation for the hardest jet transverse momentum at next-to-next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy obtained via soft-collinear effective theory and implemented in the C++ library SCETlib. This choice of resolution variable ensures that the introduction of a jet veto, commonly used by experimental analyses to reject multi-jet background events, does not result in the appearance of unmitigated large logarithms for low veto scales before showering. After validating our partonic results against publicly available fixed order and resummed calculations, we compare our predictions to measurements taken at the ATLAS and CMS experiments, finding good agreement. This is the first NNLO+PS accurate event generator to use the hardest jet transverse momentum as a resolution variable.
Evidence building and information accumulation: Using the bayesian paradigm to advance child welfare intervention research
Creators: name: Ansong, D.
name: Chen, D.-G.
name: Brevard, K.C.
name: Testa, M.F.
Publisher: name: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2020

description: Objective: Intervention evaluation typically follows a frequentist paradigm: New analyses are conducted for each subsequent study, and findings are then used to improve policy practice. This approach largely ignores data from prior studies, leading to information loss and incomplete or inaccurate conclusions. Unlike the frequentist paradigm, the Bayesian paradigm uses formative data (as pri-ors), which can be updated with the summative data, thus building on existing evidence about an intervention’s effectiveness. Method: This article uses data from the Safe Families for Children randomized controlled trial to illustrate how the Bayesian paradigm incorporates prior evidence at the formative phase with data at the summative phase to provide a more comprehensive analysis. This approach is consistent with the scientific principle of evidence building. We compare the merits of each paradigm on two evaluation criteria: (a) p-values from a chi-square test, and (b) the probability that the intervention is superior to the comparison group on three outcome variables (protective custody, deflection from foster care, and whether repeat victimization occurred). Results: The Bayesian paradigm consistently outperformed the frequentist paradigm. Conclusion: The Bayesian paradigm is superior to the frequentist paradigm in demonstrating the effectiveness of an intervention, as evidenced by smaller p-values and a higher probability that the intervention group outperformed the comparison group.
At the periphery of empire: Indians and settlers in the Pampas of Buenos Aires, 1580-1776
Creators: name: Campetella, María Andrea
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This is a study of the multifaceted interactions between Porte??os and Indians in the plains or Pampas that extended southwest of Buenos Aires, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. In the Pampas, the Spaniards did not encounter large, farming Indian populations like those of central Mexico or the Andean highlands, but mobile hunter-gatherers whom they were unable to conquer and subdue. Using an ethnohistorical approach, this dissertation shows that although Indians remained independent, they thoroughly reinvented their societies under the multidimensional impact of the Spanish arrival, which included ecological changes, epidemics, slaving raids, and intercultural commerce. Most dramatically, the Pampa Indians became superb horse-riders, deft hunters of (feral) cattle, avid consumers of Spanish manufactures, and an integral part of long-distance exchange networks that extended west across the Andes and reached into southern Chile. On the basis of this ethnohistorical understanding of the Pampas, this dissertation offers an ambitious reconsideration of Buenos Aires' early colonial period. The intersection of Andean and Atlantic trade circuits in Buenos Aires during the seventeenth century provided the stimuli for the development of cattle ranching as a main local economic activity. Spanish settlers adapted Iberian cattle-ranching practices to the challenges and opportunities of the Pampas by developing a hunting industry to exploit the proliferating herds of feral livestock that roamed the plains. Such hunting industry put the Spaniards in direct contact, and competition, with the Indians who inhabited the Pampas and with the Indians who arrived seasonally from the Andean zone to hunt and trade. The dissertation examines the complex intercultural and intertribal relations that ensued, which included Indian raids, military expeditions, diplomatic negotiations and treaties, and short-lived Jesuit missions. By the 1750s, these relations had resulted in the emergence of a militarized frontier line lying barely a hundred miles southwest of Buenos Aires. This frontier line defined intercultural relations in the Pampas for the next hundred years, and became a fundamental element in the narrative of Argentina's emergence as a modern nation in the early twentieth century.
Complex Quantum Network Geometries: Evolution and Phase Transitions
Creators: name: Bianconi, Ginestra
name: Rahmede, Christoph
name: Wu, Zhihao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Networks are topological and geometric structures used to describe systems as different as the Internet, the brain or the quantum structure of space-time. Here we define complex quantum network geometries, describing the underlying structure of growing simplicial 2-complexes, i.e. simplicial complexes formed by triangles. These networks are geometric networks with energies of the links that grow according to a non-equilibrium dynamics. The evolution in time of the geometric networks is a classical evolution describing a given path of a path integral defining the evolution of quantum network states. The quantum network states are characterized by quantum occupation numbers that can be mapped respectively to the nodes, links, and triangles incident to each link of the network. We call the geometric networks describing the evolution of quantum network states the quantum geometric networks. The quantum geometric networks have many properties common to complex networks including small-world property, high clustering coefficient, high modularity, scale-free degree distribution.Moreover they can be distinguished between the Fermi-Dirac Network and the Bose-Einstein Network obeying respectively the Fermi-Dirac and Bose-Einstein statistics. We show that these networks can undergo structural phase transitions where the geometrical properties of the networks change drastically. Finally we comment on the relation between Quantum Complex Network Geometries, spin networks and triangulations.
description: (30 pages, 23 figures)
Exploring factors for achieving successful educational attainment among Chinese doctoral students in the United States
Creators: name: Wu, Q.
name: Bledsoe, S.E.
name: Wu, S.
name: Ansong, D.
name: Wei, X., , China
Publisher: name: University Printing Services
Year: 2020

description: This study aims to understand the pathways of successful educational attainment (SEA) among Chinese students who are pursuing doctorate degrees in the United States. An exploratory qualitative approach was used to identify the factors of SEA. Based on the in-depth interviews of nine participants, we found common factors of SEA at the micro level include individuals’ personalities, visions/dreams of achieving SEA, and interest about study/research; mezzo level factors include important peoples’ help, satisfaction with teachers, previous education experiences in China, and home environment; whereas at the macro level, not many participants mentioned that their SEA was due to Chinese social policy. Overall, most participants mentioned that being lucky was an important factor of SEA.
Bright solitons in a 2D spin-orbit-coupled dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Xu, Yong
name: Zhang, Yongping
name: Zhang, Chuanwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a two-dimensional spin-orbit-coupled dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate with repulsive contact interactions by both the variational method and the imaginary time evolution of the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. The dipoles are completely polarized along one direction in the 2D plane so as to provide an effective attractive dipole-dipole interaction. We find two types of solitons as the ground states arising from such attractive interactions: a plane wave soliton with a spatially varying phase and a stripe soliton with a spatially oscillating density for each component. Both types of solitons possess smaller size and higher anisotropy than the soliton without spin-orbit coupling. Finally, we discuss the properties of moving solitons, which are nontrivial because of the violation of Galilean invariance.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures
Navigating Pharma's New Frontier: Precision Targeting and Segmentation
Creators: name: Bhabad, Rajashree
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420302
subject: Digital health

description: The pharmaceutical industry is experiencing a paradigm shift driven by advancements in data science, technology, and personalized medicine. Precision targeting and segmentation have emerged as critical strategies for pharmaceutical companies to optimize drug development, commercialization, and patient outcomes. This whitepaper explores the concept of precision targeting and segmentation in the pharmaceutical industry, highlighting its significance, challenges, methodologies, and potential impact on various stages of drug development and patient care.
Wigner-localized states in spin-orbit-coupled bosonic ultracold atoms with dipolar interaction
Creators: name: Yousefi, Y.
name: Karabulut, E. Ö.
name: Malet, F.
name: Cremon, J.
name: Reimann, S. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the occurence of Wigner-localization phenomena in bosonic dipolar ultracold few-body systems with Rashba-like spin-orbit coupling. We show that the latter strongly enhances the effects of the dipole-dipole interactions, allowing to reach the Wigner-localized regime for strengths of the dipole moment much smaller than those necessary in the spin-orbit-free case.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
DT-MEC-PP model data
Creators: name: Chong, Han
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Model data and G-code for the DT-MEC-PP and the thin-walled parts in the case study in "A novel framework for online decision-making and feedback optimization of complex products process parameter based on edge-cloud collaboration" Interested readers/reviewers can contact Chong Han via email (302886572@qq.com) for more information
Effects of Education Savings Accounts on Student Engagement: Instrumental Variable Analysis
Creators: name: Kim, Y.K.
name: Despard, M.
name: Small, E.
name: Ansong, D.
name: Darfo-Oduro, R.
name: Okumu, M.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2020

description: As interest in youth financial inclusion continues to grow substantially, emerging research points to positive associations between students’savings and their educational outcomes. However, there is no definitive data on how assets alter student engagement, particularly in resource-limited settings. This study contributes knowledge by assessing the causal effects of education savings accounts on student engagement. We evaluate causal effects by using instrumental variable methods and data from a pilot study that assessed the viability of different education funding mechanisms for junior high-school students in Ghana. Results show that the offering of an education savings account to young people with an opt-out option has great promise for improving education account ownership. Results also show that simply having an account is not strongly predictive of school engagement. Instead, it is when people begin to save into the account that it positively shapes their school engagement. The finding speaks to the value of policies that support young people to cultivate a savings habit and to build their financial knowledge and skills. Efforts should be made to understand better how social workers and teachers could be adequately trained to provide financial counseling and financial education assistance to students within the community or school settings.
Sequence stratigraphic analysis of early and middle Miocene shelf progradation along the New Jersey margin
Creators: name: Monteverde, Donald H.
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2008

description: This dissertation uses sequence stratigraphic analysis to study the early to middle Miocene growth of the New Jersey margin, particularly the connection between relative sea level change and variable sediment supply in sequence architecture and preservation. Previous studies of the New Jersey Mid Atlantic margin have concentrated either onshore through extensive coring and few seismic profiles or the outer continental shelf and slope where excellent seismic profiles but limited cores exist. The R/V Cape Hatteras (CH0698) high resolution seismic data fills the missing interval between the two databases thereby forming a tie between onshore coreholes and offshore shelf seismic profiles. Eleven candidate sequence boundaries were identified by seismic reflector termination geometries in high resolution MCS profiles and traced across the inner margin. ODP Leg 150X onshore coreholes were matched by geophysical log signatures and lithologic changes to offshore boreholes within the seismic grid. Sequence analysis at these drill sites were then matched to the seismic sequence boundaries and drill hole chronologies were used to assign ages to the intervening seismic sequences. A single land-based seismic profile reveals reflector geometries tied to lower Miocene litho- and bio-facies at the Island Beach borehole thereby providing ground truth for seismic facies interpretations. Offshore seismic facies correlate well with paleoenvironmental interpretations of borehole lithologies.Regional early Miocene sequences correlate globally and suggest a dominant role of global sea-level change. However sequence formation and preservation was controlled by localized sediment contribution and the wave and current regime along the New Jersey Mid Atlantic margin. Lowstand deposits were regionally restricted and point to both single and multiple sediment sources. Transgressive sediments are thin and generally below seismic resolution. Highstand deposit form a more regional sedimentary blanket and document redistribution by along shelf currents. Fluvial incision is limited and generally found far from the clinoform inflection point. No evidence suggests that sea level fell below the elevation of the clinoform inflection point thereby exposing the entire paleoshelf. Efficient cross shelf sediment transport mechanisms account for the extensive lowstand deposits seaward of this inflection point.
DT-MEC-PP model data
Creators: name: Chong, Han
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Model data for the DT-MEC-PP and the thin-walled parts models in the case study in "A novel framework for online decision-making and feedback optimization of complex products process parameter based on edge-cloud collaboration" Interested readers/reviewers can contact Chong Han via email (302886572@qq.com) for more information
Digital Building Twins Projects - Joint Flash Newsletter # 1
Creators: name: Marill, Mona
name: Cediel, Natalia
name: Mikołajczyk, Agnieszka
name: Quaggiotto, Davide
name: Serna, Carmen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Digital Twin
Construction 4.0
Maintenance
Design

description: ASHVIN, BIMProve, COGITO and BIM2TWIN present the project clusters’ joint flash newsletter #1 of these four EU-supported research projects devoted to developing Digital Building Twin technologies to boost tomorrow’s European construction industry!
 All these projects arrive at their final months of research and development, with the first project, BIMProve, ending this month (August 2023). Therefore, our cluster has created this short series of joint newsletters to present their technological innovation in digital twins and to showcase the major research results. 
Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland EKD (Hg.), Zwischen Nächstenliebe und Abgrenzung. Eine interdisziplinäre Studie zu Kirche und politischer Kultur
Creators: name: Strube, Sonja Angelika
Publisher: name: theologie.geschichte
Year: 2023

description: Drei methodisch und in ihren Perspektiven sehr unterschiedliche Teilprojekte umfasst diese lesenswerte und gut lesbare interdisziplinäre EKD-Studie, die insbesondere die aktuellen Herausforderungen durch Rechtspopulismus und Verschwörungserzählungen in der Gesellschaft und leider auch in Teilen der Kirchen fokussiert. Sie bearbeitet u.a. folgende Fragen: Sind Kirchenmitglieder immun gegen Vorurteile und rechtsextreme Einstellungen – oder im Gegenteil anfälliger dafür? Welchen Einfluss hat die persönliche Religiosität auf Vorurteile? Welche Arten von Religiosität gehen mit mehr oder weniger Vorurteilen einher? Wie verbinden sich rechtspopulistische mit christlichen Narrativen? Wie gehen Gemeinden konstruktiv mit gesellschaftlich-politischen Herausforderungen um, und welchen Lern- und Aushandlungsprozesse müssen sie sich dabei stellen?
description: theologie.geschichte, Bd. 18 (2023)
On Capacity of Active Relaying in Magnetic Induction based Wireless Underground Sensor Networks
Creators: name: Kisseleff, S.
name: Sackenreuter, B.
name: Akyildiz, I. F.
name: Gerstacker, W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs) present a variety of new research challenges. Magnetic induction (MI) based transmission has been proposed to overcome the very harsh propagation conditions in underground communications in recent years. In this approach, induction coils are utilized as antennas in the sensor nodes. This solution achieves longer transmission ranges compared to the traditional electromagnetic (EM) waves based approach. Furthermore, a passive relaying technique has been proposed in the literature where additional resonant circuits are deployed between the nodes. However, this solution is shown to provide only a limited performance improvement under practical system design contraints. In this work, the potential of an active relay device is investigated which may improve the performance of the system by combining the benefits of the traditional wireless relaying and the MI based signal transmission.
description: This paper has been accepted for presentation at IEEE ICC 2015. It has 6 pages, 5 figures (4 colored), and 17 references
The Role of Social Support and Psychological Well-Being in STEM Performance Trends across Gender and Locality: Evidence from Ghana
Creators: name: Bahnuk, E.P.
name: Okumu, M.
name: Small, E.
name: Ansong, D.
name: Albritton, T.J.
Publisher: name: Springer
Year: 2020

description: This study focuses on trends in STEM performance and inclusiveness. We examine performance trajectories in STEM subjects, the predictive role of social support and psychological well-being of students, and variations across student gender and school locality (rural vs urban). We used three waves of data from 135 junior high school students in Ghana. Multilevel growth curve modeling was used to assess the trajectories and the socio-environmental predictors of STEM performance, and posthoc power calculation was used to confirm the adequacy of the sample size. Results show that overall, students’ STEM performance improves over time. Minimal gender differences exist but depend on the subject area and evolve with time. We observed a nuanced “urban advantage,” with rural students starting well but declining over time. Among various indicators of social support and psychological well-being, teacher support was the strongest positive predictor of STEM performance. The study highlights the need to focus on the structural and cultural impediments to STEM education at the lower levels of education in order not to risk excluding marginalized groups early in the education system. Further, STEM interventions may do well to incorporate long-term measures to sustain girls’ interest, motivation, and efforts in STEM.
Bayesian modeling of space and time dynamics: A practical demonstration in social and health science research
Creators: name: Ansong, D.
name: Chen, D.-G.
Publisher: name: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2019

description: Objective: This article introduces Bayesian spatial–temporal modeling for social and health science research. We use the World Bank’s World Development Indicators data on youth unemployment and HIV risk in Africa to illustrate the utility of the Bayesian paradigm in modeling space–time changes in outcomes. Method: Data on adolescents and young adults were collected in 36 African countries from 1991 to 2014. We examined associations between HIV risk and youth unemployment rates using 16 Bayesian Poisson models incorporating spatial and temporal autocorrelations. Results: The best fit to the data was the model with spatially uncorrelated heterogeneity, temporally correlated random-walk autocorrelation, and spatial–temporal interaction. HIV risk factors are spatially uncorrelated across 36 countries but temporally correlated (i.e., country and time interaction) over the data collection period. The relationship between HIV risk and unemployment rate is statistically nonsignificant because of large spatial–temporal variations. Conclusions: This article demonstrates the capacity of Bayesian modeling to incorporate spatial (neighborhood) and temporal (historical) information to reflect not only the influences of space and time but also their interactions on the phenomenon of interest. The Bayesian framework holds great promise for improving the dynamic targeting of interventions and strategies to achieve desired outcomes.
Connection vs metric description for non-AdS solutions in higher spin theories
Creators: name: Lei, Yang
name: Ross, Simon F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider recently-constructed solutions of three dimensional SL(N,R) x SL(N,R) Chern-Simons theories with non-relativistic symmetries. Solutions of the Chern-Simons theories can generically be mapped to solutions of a gravitational theory with a higher-spin gauge symmetry. However, we will show that some of the non-relativistic solutions are not equivalent to metric solutions, as this mapping fails to be invertible. We also show that these Chern-Simons solutions always have a global SL(N,R) x SL(N,R) symmetry. We argue that these results pose a challenge to constructing a duality relating these solutions to field theories with non-relativistic symmetries.
description: 21 pages, no figures; v2: references & minor comments added
'It was as if she had said....': May Sinclair and reading narratives of cure
Creators: name: Wilson, Leigh
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2000

description: May Sinclair was one of the most widely read and successful English women novelists of the first half of the twentieth century. She had interests and themes in common with many of those now considered to have been at the heart of English modernism. In terms of formal experimentation too her concerns chime with the aesthetic innovations of, for example, pound, Eliot and Woolf. Her early interest in psychoanalysis and support for the suffrage campaign also mark her out as a modern. Despite some work from feminist literary critics and her partial categorisation as modernist, however, her work still lacks a critical framework within which it can be read. Indeed, some of the work done by feminist critics on her has paradoxically re-marginalised her. In this thesis I aim to provide one critical framework through which Sinclair's work can be read. My contention is that the occluding of one aspect of her work and thought- its movement toward intellectual, emotional and aesthetic wholeness - has marred previous critical readings of her. By paying attention to this through a focus on discourses of cure, this thesis reads Sinclair's work with an awareness of its language, cultural context and intertextual relations. Early twentieth-century medical discourse, psychoanalysis, mysticism, the chivalric and the psychical are all used to read the works. At the same time, my aim is to read Sinclair's work without eliding its difficulties. Rather, I aim to read her in a way that acknowledges the difficulties of and fraught moments in her writing as markers of its significance.