cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Food Security: How Rural Ghanaian Households Respond to Food Shortages in Lean Season
Creators: name: Drafor, Ivy
name: Kunze, Dagmar
name: Sarpong, Daniel Bruce
name: Drafor, Ivy
name: Kunze, Dagmar
name: Sarpong, Daniel Bruce
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Consumer/Household Economics
subject: International Development
subject: Linear Programming
subject: Relative profitability
subject: Ghana
subject: Gender
subject: Purchasing food

description: A rural household, with little or no formal education and limited opportunities for non-farm income generating activities, will produce rather than purchase staples for household consumption. Many subsistence farmers are net-food buyers, often facing the challenge of ensuring household food security in lean seasons of production when their stock is exhausted (cyclical food insecurity). This paper determined the optimal farm plan, profit levels of crops, and farmer behaviour when given the option to purchase or produce food using a linear programming framework. Findings from the LP model show that capital is the most constraining resource for both male and female farmers. Making an additional capital of US$180 available to female farmers will increase their net income by US$823 but making one additional acre of land available to them will only increase income by US$200. As land reforms take time, addressing their credit needs is an appropriate short-term intervention.
Next-to-Leading Order Corrections to Single Top Quark Production and Decay at the Tevatron: 1. s-channel Process
Creators: name: Cao, Qing-Hong
name: Schwienhorst, Reinhard
name: Yuan, C. -P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a study of s-channel single top quark production at the upgraded Tevatron $p\bar{p}$ collider, including the next-to-leading order (NLO) QCD corrections to the production and the decay of the top quark. The "modified" narrow width approximation was adopted to preserve the spin of the top quark in its production and decay. We discuss the effect of the different $O(α_s)$ contributions on the inclusive cross section as well as various kinematic distributions after imposing the relevant cuts to select s-channel single top signal events. In particular the $O(α_s)$ decay contribution, while small in size, has a significant impact on several distributions. With the help of the best-jet algorithm to reconstruct the top quark we demonstrate that it is possible to study kinematical and spin correlations in s-channel single top events. We furthermore compare top quark spin measurements in two different basis and show how NLO corrections have to be taken into consideration in searches for the Higgs boson through $W^{\pm}H$ associated production at the Tevatron.
description: 39 pages, 37 figures
title: Incorporation of customer needs in the early innovation stage of the product development cycle
Creators: name: Rottensteiner, Stefan
Publisher: name: TU Wien
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Fuzzy-Front-End of Innovation
subject: Customer Integration
subject: Car Parking App
subject: Innovation Management

description: With increasing urbanization and traffic volume that can be observed nearly daily in our cities around the world, the parking situation is getting worse and cause stress, anger and a loss of time for parking lot seekers out there. The goal of the thesis is to identify the key factors that increase the innovation ability of an enterprise, especially for a start-up company with the goal to develop a car parking smart phone app that makes parking as easy as it is. In order to do so the thesis exemplifies a case study of an innovative pioneer company and turns the gained insights into a recommendation of action which in turn helps the start-up to achieve innovation ability and thus economic success. The first key to this innovation ability can be seen in the early phase of the innovation process. This phase, also called the fuzzy front end of innovation, involves the highest leverage for product success later on. The second key to an increased innovation ability can be seen in the integration of customers directly into the innovation process. In the course of the thesis this two key elements of innovation success were investigated in very detail. Those key elements can be seen as a guideline for companies in order to increase their innovation success and thus their corporate success too. In future it is very likely that customer integration into the early innovation process becomes more and more important also for companies in different businesses than the mobile app development.
NL4DV: A Toolkit for Generating Analytic Specifications for Data Visualization from Natural Language Queries
Creators: name: Narechania, Arpit
name: Srinivasan, Arjun
name: Stasko, John
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Natural language interfaces (NLIs) have shown great promise for visual data analysis, allowing people to flexibly specify and interact with visualizations. However, developing visualization NLIs remains a challenging task, requiring low-level implementation of natural language processing (NLP) techniques as well as knowledge of visual analytic tasks and visualization design. We present NL4DV, a toolkit for natural language-driven data visualization. NL4DV is a Python package that takes as input a tabular dataset and a natural language query about that dataset. In response, the toolkit returns an analytic specification modeled as a JSON object containing data attributes, analytic tasks, and a list of Vega-Lite specifications relevant to the input query. In doing so, NL4DV aids visualization developers who may not have a background in NLP, enabling them to create new visualization NLIs or incorporate natural language input within their existing systems. We demonstrate NL4DV's usage and capabilities through four examples: 1) rendering visualizations using natural language in a Jupyter notebook, 2) developing a NLI to specify and edit Vega-Lite charts, 3) recreating data ambiguity widgets from the DataTone system, and 4) incorporating speech input to create a multimodal visualization system.
description: 11 pages, 10 figures. Proceedings of IEEE VIS'2020
10309: James Turner, 16th Royal Scots and 1st Scottish Rifles
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: James Turner was not related to the contributor but did survive the war. He served in the 16th Royal Scots and 1st Scottish Rifles in the same regiment as Thomas William Renner (great grandad to contributor).
Additional file 7 of Gut eukaryotic communities in pigs: diversity, composition and host genetics contribution
Creators: name: Ramayo-Caldas, Yuliaxis
name: Prenafeta-Boldú, Francesc
name: Zingaretti, Laura M.
name: Gonzalez-Rodriguez, Olga
name: Dalmau, Antoni
name: Quintanilla, Raquel
name: Ballester, Maria
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 7 Figure S2. Patterns of association between the piglets body weight at 60-days old and the fungal and protist abundance according to the Shapley Additive Explanation (SHAP) values. The x-axis represent the genera abundance after Cumulative Sum Scaling (CSS) normalization and log transformation. Y-axis represents the SHAP values of the piglets’ body weight.
Incidence of Downy Mildew Disease (Pseudoperonospora cubensis) on Watermelon with Various Fertilizer Compositions on Coastal Sandy Soils in Pandeglang Regency, Banten
Creators: name: Alvinda, Dallen Fauzi
name: Poerwanto, Mofit Eko
name: Partoyo, Partoyo
name: Lucitasari, Dyah Rachmawati
name: Hardiastuti, Siwi
name: Wicaksono, Danar
name: Ulilalbab, Azizah Ridha
name: Ajri, Miftahul
name: Kusumawardani, Mawar
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: This material has been presented on 3rd International Conference on Advance Research in Agriculture and Food 2024 October 23 - 24, 2024.
Continuity with respect to Disorder of the Integrated Density of States
Creators: name: Hislop, Peter D.
name: Klopp, Frederic
name: Schenker, Jeffrey H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that the integrated density of states (IDS) associated to a random Schroedinger operator is locally uniformly Hoelder continuous as a function of the disorder parameter lambda. In particular, we obtain convergence of the IDS, as lambda tends to 0, to the IDS for the unperturbed operator at all energies for which the IDS for the unperturbed operator is continuous in energy.
description: 12 pages, LaTeX
Growth and Welfare under Endogenous Lifetime
Creators: name: Schneider, Maik T.
name: Winkler, Ralph
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2010
Subjects: Economic growth
Endogenous longevity
Healthcare expenditures
Healthcare technology
Quality-quantity trade-off
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: Economics Working Paper Series, 10/137
Effects of scale, intensity and farm structure on the income efficiency of Irish beef farms
Creators: name: Finneran, E.
name: Crosson, P.
name: Finneran, E.
name: Crosson, P.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Suckler beef production
subject: efficiency
subject: DEA
subject: scale efficiency
subject: bootstrapping
subject: whole-farm comparative analysis

description: Data envelopment analysis (DEA) was employed to develop a model of income and scale efficiency for Irish beef farms. The objective was to identify and quantify management, farm structural and intensity indicators of efficiency for over 400 representative farms over two production systems and two years. Bootstrapping techniques were employed to measure and correct efficiency scores for sampling bias. Less than 10% of the sample exhibited constant or increasing returns to scale. The remaining farms exhibited decreasing returns to scale meaning that they were larger than optimal scale. Greater income efficiency was associated with lower levels of concentrate feeding and lower overhead costs per livestock unit (LU). Fragmentation, paid labour and capital investment were significantly negatively associated with income efficiency. There was a positive relationship between market gross output per LU and income efficiency. Negative market net margins tended to be subsidised by greater off-farm income on smaller (more scale efficient) farms and by greater direct payments on larger (more scale inefficient) farms. Consequently, prospects for increasing beef output via scale expansion are negative in an external environment of declining subsidies and reduced off-farm employment in rural areas. Increased output from Irish beef farms must therefore come primarily from farm system structural changes rather than scale changes, otherwise farm income efficiency will decline.
Unraveling short- and farsightedness in politics
Creators: name: Gersbach, Hans
name: Ponta, Oriana
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Selection
subject: Elections
subject: Political contracts
subject: Vote-share thresholds
subject: Incumbents
subject: Effort
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/510
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Economics

description: Economics Working Paper Series, 12/158
Characteristics, intentions and expectations of new entrant dairy farmers entering the Irish dairy industry through the New Entrant Scheme
Creators: name: McDonald, Roberta
name: Karina, Pierce
name: Reamonn, Fealy
name: Horan, Brendan
name: McDonald, Roberta
name: Karina, Pierce
name: Reamonn, Fealy
name: Horan, Brendan
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Labor and Human Capital
subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: new entrant dairy farmers
subject: pasture-based
subject: characteristics
subject: expectations
subject: Ireland

description: As part of the gradual expansion and abolition of EU milk quotas, the Irish government has approved the allocation of milk quota to a small number of new entrants to dairy production. The objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of new entrant dairy farm businesses developing within the Irish dairy industry in terms of geographical distribution, planned production system characteristics and intended operational scale and expected profitability based on an analysis of successful applications and business plans to the Irish New Entrant Dairy Scheme over a 3 year period. A total of 230 applications and business plans of entrants who received up to 200,000 litres of milk quotas through the New Entrant Scheme from 2009-2011, were analysed for the effects of region, age, household income, previous dairy experience, and education on overall business plan expectations. The results show that a youthful, highly educated and highly resourced group of new farmers are using the New Entrant Scheme to enter the Irish dairy industry. Applicant age has a significant impact on available investment equity and expectations, as younger entrants have less owned resources, are increasingly reliant on additional borrowing and have significantly increased expectations for the productive capacity of their potential farm businesses when compared to older entrants. The majority of new entrants are not planning to solely rely on new dairy enterprises and are instead maintaining reduced alternative enterprises or off-farm work. The results provide a further indication that quota abolition is likely to result in an increased regional polarisation of milk production within Ireland with increased intensity of production within traditional milk production areas in the south.
Galaxy Groups Associated with Gravitational Lenses and H_0 from B1608+656
Creators: name: Fassnacht, Chris
name: Lubin, Lori
name: McKean, John
name: Gal, Roy
name: Squires, Gordon
name: Koopmans, Leon
name: Treu, Tommaso
name: Blandford, Roger
name: Rusin, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Compact groups of galaxies recently have been discovered in association with several strong gravitational lens systems. These groups provide additional convergence to the lensing potential and thus affect the value of H_0 derived from the systems. Lens system time delays are now being measured with uncertainties of only a few percent or better. Additionally, vast improvements are being made in incorporating observational constraints such as Einstein ring structures and stellar velocity dispersions into the lens models. These advances are reducing the uncertainties on H_0 to levels at which the the effects of associated galaxy groups may contribute significantly to the overall error budget. We describe a dedicated multiwavelength program, using Keck, HST, and Chandra, to find such groups and measure their properties. We present, as a case study, results obtained from observations of the CLASS lens system B1608+656 and discuss the implications for the value of H_0 derived from this system.
description: To appear in Proceedings of IAU Symposium 225: Impact of Gravitational Lensing on Cosmology, 6 pages, 2 figures
Additional file 1 of Circulating microRNAs correlate to clinical parameters in individuals with allergic and non-allergic asthma
Creators: name: Weidner, Julie
name: Ekerljung, Linda
name: Malmhäll, Carina
name: Miron, Nicolae
name: Rådinger, Madeleine
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
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: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supp Fig. 1. miR-126 expression is unaffected by asthma subtype, eosinophil level or ICS usage. Supp Fig. 2. Correlations of examined serum miRNA expression in healthy and asthma subjects. Supp Fig. 3. Multiple logistic regression to determine miRNA strength in distinguishing between asthma groups. Supp Table 1. Biological Processes enriched in miR-155 and miR-146a gene targets. Supp Table2. Reactome Pathways enriched in miR-155 and miR-146a gene targets. Supp Table 3. KEGG Pathways enriched in miR-155 and miR-146a gene targets.
Povestka dnja razvitija agrarnoj politiki v Kazachstane
Creators: name: Petrik, Martin
name: Gramcov, Andreas
name: Ošakbaev, Dauren
name: Vandel', Jurgen
name: Petrik, Martin
name: Gramcov, Andreas
name: Ošakbaev, Dauren
name: Vandel', Jurgen
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Agribusiness
Agricultural and Food Policy

description: Ispol’zuja dannye, polučennye v rezul’tate provedenija anketirovanija sredi sel’skochozjajstvennych proizvoditelej, my predlagaem novye idei kasatel’no organičenij, predpjatstvujuščich dal’nejšemu ėkonomičeskomu rostu, i analiziruem gosudarstvennuju strategiju razvitija sel’skogo chozjajstva. Bol’šinstvo rukovoditelej, prinjavšich učastie v anketirovanii, somnevajutsja, što investicii v agrarnom sektore obespečat dostatočno nadežnuju otdaču, neobchodimuju dlja obsluživanija kreditov, i po ėtoj pričine ne rešajutsja ich oformljat‘. V sektore krupnogo rogatogo skota suščestvujut značitel’nye problemy s kruglogodičnym obespečeniem kormami. Cepočka dobavlennoj stoimosti proizvodstva govjadiny i moločnoj produkcii razbita na dve časti: promyšlennoe proizvodstvo, rabotajuščee na importnom syr’e i obespečivajuščee gorodskoe naselenie, i cepočku mestnogo proizvodstva syr’ja, kotoroe potrebljaetsja v sel’skoj mestnosti i postavljaetsja na gorodskie rynki. Pravitel’stvu neobchodimo skoncentrirovat’sja na obespečenii ravnogo dostupa k kačestvennym gosudarstvennym uslugam v agrarnom sektore, pri ėtom neobchodimo vyjavit‘ naibolee slabye zven’ja v celočke dobavlennoj stoimosti i obespečit‘ predprinimateljam stimuly dlja ich ukreplenija.
Haptic Sequential Monte Carlo Localization for Quadrupedal Locomotion in Vision-Denied Scenarios
Creators: name: Buchanan, Russell
name: Camurri, Marco
name: Fallon, Maurice
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Continuous robot operation in extreme scenarios such as underground mines or sewers is difficult because exteroceptive sensors may fail due to fog, darkness, dirt or malfunction. So as to enable autonomous navigation in these kinds of situations, we have developed a type of proprioceptive localization which exploits the foot contacts made by a quadruped robot to localize against a prior map of an environment, without the help of any camera or LIDAR sensor. The proposed method enables the robot to accurately re-localize itself after making a sequence of contact events over a terrain feature. The method is based on Sequential Monte Carlo and can support both 2.5D and 3D prior map representations. We have tested the approach online and onboard the ANYmal quadruped robot in two different scenarios: the traversal of a custom built wooden terrain course and a wall probing and following task. In both scenarios, the robot is able to effectively achieve a localization match and to execute a desired pre-planned path. The method keeps the localization error down to 10cm on feature rich terrain by only using its feet, kinematic and inertial sensing.
description: 7 pages, 8 figures, 1 table. Accepted at IEEE/RSJ IROS 2020
Žitnica Vostoka blokiruet svoi rynočnye vozmožnosti i šansy rosta
Creators: name: Glauben, Tomas
name: Beljaeva, Marija
name: Bobožonov, Ichtijor
name: Džurič, Ivan
name: Gjotc, Linde
name: Chokman, Genrich
name: Mjuller, Daniėl'
name: Perechožuk, Oleksandr
name: Petrik, Martin
name: Pren, Sjoren
name: Priščepov, Aleksandr
name: Renner, Svetlana
name: Širchorn, Florian
name: Glauben, Tomas
name: Beljaeva, Marija
name: Bobožonov, Ichtijor
name: Džurič, Ivan
name: Gjotc, Linde
name: Chokman, Genrich
name: Mjuller, Daniėl'
name: Perechožuk, Oleksandr
name: Petrik, Martin
name: Pren, Sjoren
name: Priščepov, Aleksandr
name: Renner, Svetlana
name: Širchorn, Florian
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Agricultural and Food Policy
Crop Production/Industries
International Relations/Trade

description: Žitnice Vostoka, a imenno Rossii, Ukraine i Kazachstanu, obladajuščim gromadnym zemel’nym i urožajnym potencialom, pripisyvaetsja vse bol’šee značenie dlja mirovych rynkov zerna. Odnako, necelesoobraznaja rynočnaja i torgovaja politika, nizkaja produktivnost‘ v sel’skom chozjajstve, a takže nedostatki sbytovoj infrastruktury ne dajut v polnoj mere raskryt‘ proizvodstvennyj i rynočnyj potencial regiona. Dlja realizacii ėtich skrytych vozmožnostej neobchodimo otdat‘ predpočtenie otvečajuščim trebovanijam rynka i ėksportno orientirovannym političeskim meram, a takže stimulirovat‘ značitel’nye ivesticii v territorial’nuju i proizvodstvennuju infrastruktury.
Channeling the final say in politics
Creators: name: Gersbach, Hans
name: Imhof, Stephan
name: Tejada, Oriol
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Constitutional design
subject: Local public project provision
subject: Subsidies
subject: Majority rule
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/510
subject: Economics
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Economics Working Paper Series, 12/164 (164)
The Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey (CLASXS) of the Lockman Hole-Northwest: The X-ray Catalog
Creators: name: Yang, Y.
name: Mushotzky, R. F.
name: Steffen, A. T.
name: Barger, A. J.
name: Cowie, L. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the X-ray catalog and basic results from our Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey (CLASXS) of the Lockman Hole-Northwest field. Our 9 ACIS-I fields cover a contiguous solid angle of ~0.4 sq. deg. and reach fluxes of 5E-16 cgs (0.4-2 keV) and 3E-15 cgs (2-8keV). Our survey bridges the gap between ultradeep pencil-beam surveys, such as the Chandra Deep Fields (CDFs), and shallower, large area surveys, allowing a better probe of the X-ray sources that contribute most of the 2-10 keV cosmic X-ray background (CXB). We find a total of 525 X-ray point sources and 4 extended sources. At ~10E-14 cgs 2-8 keV, our number counts are significantly higher than those of several non-contiguous, large area surveys. On the other hand, the integrated flux from the CLASXS field, combined with ASCA and Chandra ultradeep surveys, is consistent with results from other large area surveys, within the variance of the CXB. Spectral evolution is seen in the hardening of the sources at fluxes below 1E-14 cgs Above 4E1-14 cgs(0.4-8 keV), ~60 of the sources are variable. Four extended sources in CLASXS is consistent with the previously measured LogN-LogS of galaxy clusters. We report the discovery of a gravitational lensing arc associated with one of these sources. (Abridged)
description: 67 pages, 26 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
A 1000-fold Acceleration of Hidden Markov Model Fitting using Graphical Processing Units, with application to Nonvolcanic Tremor Classification
Creators: name: Stoltz, Marnus
name: Stoltz, Gene
name: Obara, Kazushige
name: Wang, Ting
name: Bryant, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computation (stat.CO)
subject: Applications (stat.AP)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Hidden Markov models (HMMs) are general purpose models for time-series data widely used across the sciences because of their flexibility and elegance. However fitting HMMs can often be computationally demanding and time consuming, particularly when the the number of hidden states is large or the Markov chain itself is long. Here we introduce a new Graphical Processing Unit (GPU) based algorithm designed to fit long chain HMMs, applying our approach to an HMM for nonvolcanic tremor events developed by Wang et al.(2018). Even on a modest GPU, our implementation resulted in a 1000-fold increase in speed over the standard single processor algorithm, allowing a full Bayesian inference of uncertainty related to model parameters. Similar improvements would be expected for HMM models given large number of observations and moderate state spaces (<80 states with current hardware). We discuss the model, general GPU architecture and algorithms and report performance of the method on a tremor dataset from the Shikoku region, Japan.
Stator Flux Based Field Oriented Control of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor
Creators: name: Shafiq, Muhammad Saad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 110603 Motor Control
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 90699 Electrical and Electronic Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: A traditional field-oriented control (FOC) is a rotor flux-based, in particular, permanent magnet in the case of a PMSM, control scheme.
This thesis proposes an alternative FOC scheme using stator flux as a reference for our rotating coordinate system (f, t), hence, called stator flux-based field-oriented control (SFOC).
The thesis starts with a PMSM modeling in f, t coordinate system, and then the control scheme is developed with and without using a position sensor.
The SFOC control scheme is evaluated comprehensively using simulation and real motor and then the results are presented for the variety of tests.
Finally, the thesis concludes by comparing SFOC with FOC, discussing its pros and cons, and suggesting future work.
An investigation into the phonological awareness skills in children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Creators: name: McGee, Cheryl Lynn
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: Phonological awareness is the reflection on or manipulation of speech sounds within words. Many studies have shown phonological awareness (PA) to be highly correlated with literacy skills, with children with language impairments often being delayed in acquisition of both. However, no research has been conducted to date describing the nature of PA skills for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Thus, the present study was designed to evaluate the phonological awareness skills of 11 children with ASD, ranging in age from 5 to 9 years. Five phonological awareness tasks targeting syllable, rime, and phoneme levels were administered, along with a pre-literacy (letter-sound identification) task. Four children scored above chance on all PA tasks, three were successful on two tasks, and four children did not complete any of the tasks. Four children achieved some success in subsequent teaching trials. Correlational analyses revealed significant relationships between performance on PA measures and language comprehension scores, percent consonant match (i.e., phonological production), and pre-literacy skills. According to a regression analysis, language comprehension scores and phonological production contributed most to the variance in performance on PA tasks. Children with ASD are thus similar to children with language impairment of other origins with respect to the interaction of language, phonology, and phonological awareness skills. Implications for future research and clinical intervention are discussed.
МИНИМАЛЬНО ИНВАЗИВНОЕ ЗАКРЫТИЕ ОТКРЫТОГО АРТЕРИАЛЬНОГО ПРОТОКА У ДЕТЕЙ: СОВРЕМЕННЫЙ ПОДХОД И ПЕРСПЕКТИВЫ
Creators: name: Тошпулатов, Мухаммадрасул
name: Рихсиев, Зоир
name: Турсунов, Насриддин
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Обзор литературы посвящен минимально-инвазивному закрытию открытого артериального протока у детей различных возрастных групп — актуальной теме современной хирургии. Рассматриваются ключевые вопросы, такие как оптимальный возраст для вмешательства и выбор наиболее эффективного метода закрытия. На примере лечения данной патологии прослеживается прогресс хирургических технологий, произошедший в конце XX — начале XXI века. Дается характеристика различных способов лечения, включая классическую торакотомию и современные минимальноинвазивные процедуры, с указанием их преимуществ и недостатков. Также обозначены нерешенные проблемы, требующие дальнейших исследований, что подчеркивает необходимость оптимизации подходов к лечению открытого артериального протока.
"I chose to fight" : the lives and experiences of aboriginal women who are living with HIV/AIDS
Creators: name: McCall, Jane
Publisher: name: University of British Columbia
Year: 2010

description: The increasingly high rates of mortality and morbidity amongst HIV+ Aboriginal women indicate that there is a need to address deficiencies in the delivery of supportive services and health care. The purpose of this study was to develop a greater understanding of the barriers, challenges and successes that Aboriginal women face in the context of living with HIV/AIDS. It is anticipated that the findings from the study will be used to inform decision making around the development and delivery of appropriate, responsive and accessible policies and programs that will assist Aboriginal women who are living with HIV/AIDS achieve a state of health and well-being that is equitable and that they perceive as optimal. This study utilized a qualitative interpretive descriptive methodology to gather data from eight Aboriginal women living with HIV/AIDS. Data were collected utilizing one on one, semi-structured interviews. Two of the women were contacted by telephone for follow-up interviews to review the preliminary findings. An expert informant, who self-identified as Aboriginal and who has expertise in the field of HIV/AIDS, provided ongoing advice and feedback throughout the study in relation to study design, analysis and interpretation of the data as well as write up of the findings. The data analysis proceeded simultaneously with the interviews utilizing a process of constant comparative analysis. Thematic analysis was completed as I moved between the transcripts to identify commonalities and variations within the emerging themes. The ultimate result was a description of five themes that described the range of experiences that the women discussed. The five themes that were identified included: fear of rejection; looking for friendship; the struggle to stay well; finding strength in adversity; and HIV is just one problem among many. Three overarching issues were apparent, including the intersecting social, economic and political forces that constrained the women’s lives, and the resultant experience of social suffering. Also of note was the significant degree of resilient behaviour that the women brought to bear on their life circumstances.
From hierarchies to levels: New solutions for games with hierarchical structure
Creators: name: Álvarez-Mozos, Mikel
name: van den Brink, René
name: van der Laan, Gerard
name: Tejada, Oriol
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: TU-game
subject: Hierarchical structure
subject: Levels structure
subject: Shapley Value
subject: Axiomatization
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/510
subject: Economics
subject: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Economics Working Paper Series, 15/215
Astrometric study of Gaia DR2 stars for interstellar communication
Creators: name: Seto, Naoki
name: Kashiyama, Kazumi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the prospects of high precision pointing of our transmitter to habitable planets around Galactic main sequence stars. For an efficient signal delivery, the future sky positions of the host stars should be appropriately extrapolated with accuracy better than the beam opening angle $Θ$ of the transmitter. Using the latest data release (DR2) of Gaia, we estimate the accuracy of the extrapolations individually for $4.7\times 10^7$ FGK stars, and find that the total number of targets could be $\sim 10^7$ for the accuracy goal better than 1". Considering the pairwise nature of communication, our study would be instructive also for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence), not only for sending signals outward.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in the International Journal of Astrobiology
10303: David Richardson Renner, Army Service Corps
Creators: name: Project Team, Lest We Forget
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 430304
subject: British history
classificationCode: 430308
subject: European history (excl. British, classical Greek and Roman)
classificationCode: 430316
subject: International history

description: David Renner was the great-great uncle of the contributor. David survived the war and served at home in Aldershot from 1915 to 1919. He was part of Army Service Corps (M.T) but did not serve homefront. He joined under the Derby Scheme (pre-conscription) where he could choose where to serve. He signed up in December.
SPT-CL J2032-5627: a new Southern double relic cluster observed with ASKAP
Creators: name: Duchesne, S. W.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
name: Bartalucci, I.
name: Hodgson, T.
name: Pratt, G. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a radio and X-ray analysis of the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J2032-5627. Investigation of public data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) at 943 MHz shows two previously undetected radio relics at either side of the cluster. For both relic sources we utilise archival Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) data at 5.5 GHz in conjunction with the new ASKAP data to determine that both have steep integrated radio spectra ($α_\mathrm{SE} = -1.52 \pm 0.10$ and $α_\mathrm{NW,full} = -1.18 \pm 0.10$ for the southeast and northwest relic sources, respectively). No shock is seen in XMM-Newton observations, however, the southeast relic is preceded by a cold front in the X-ray emitting intra-cluster medium. We suggest the lack of a detectable shock may be due to instrumental limitations, comparing the situation to the southeast relic in Abell 3667. We compare the relics to the population of double relic sources and find they are located below the current power-mass ($P$-$M$) scaling relation. We present an analysis of the low-surface brightness sensitivity of ASKAP and the ATCA, the excellent sensitivity of both allow the ability to find heretofore undetected diffuse sources, suggesting these low-power radio relics will become more prevalent in upcoming large-area radio surveys such as the Evolutionary Map of the Universe (EMU).
description: 15 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in PASA
An Optical Catalog of the Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey Sources
Creators: name: Steffen, A. T.
name: Barger, A. J.
name: Capak, P.
name: Cowie, L. L.
name: Mushotzky, R. F.
name: Yang, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of the X-ray sources detected in the wide-area, moderately deep Chandra Large Area Synoptic X-ray Survey of the Lockman Hole-Northwest field. We have B, V, R, I, and z' photometry for 521 (99%) of the 525 sources in the X-ray catalog and spectroscopic redshifts for 271 (52%), including 20 stars. We do not find evidence for redshift groupings of the X-ray sources, like those found in the Chandra Deep Field surveys, because of the larger solid angle covered by this survey. We separate the X-ray sources by optical spectral type and examine the colors, apparent and absolute magnitudes, and redshift distributions for the broad-line and non-broad-line active galactic nuclei. Combining our wide-area survey with other Chandra and XMM-Newton hard X-ray surveys, we find a definite lack of luminous, high accretion rate sources at z<1, consistent with previous observations that showed that supermassive black hole growth is dominated at low redshifts by sources with low accretion rates.
description: 35 pages, 12 figures, accepted for publication in the Astronomical Journal
History-bound reelections
Creators: name: Gersbach, Hans
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: History-bound reelections
subject: Competitive elections
subject: Incumbency advantages
subject: Score-replication rule
subject: info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/320
subject: Political science
subject: FOS: Political science

description: Economics Working Paper Series, 15/225
Influence of an anisotropic matter field on the shadow of a rotating black hole
Creators: name: Badía, Javier
name: Eiroa, Ernesto F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the shadow produced by rotating black holes with charge in the presence of an anisotropic matter field. We obtain the apparent shape and the corresponding observables characterizing the size, oblateness, and deviation of the center, for different values of the parameters of the model. We compare the new results with those corresponding to the Kerr-Newmann spacetime and we also discuss the observational prospects in this case.
description: 14 pages, 5 figures; v2: extended and improved version, new references added
Scenario of Use Scheme: Threat Model Specification for Speaker Privacy Protection in the Medical Domain
Creators: name: Rahman, Mehtab Ur
name: Larson, Martha
name: Bosch, Louis ten
name: Tejedor-García, Cristian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: Sound (cs.SD)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Speech recordings are being more frequently used to detect and monitor disease, leading to privacy concerns. Beyond cryptography, protection of speech can be addressed by approaches, such as perturbation, disentanglement, and re-synthesis, that eliminate sensitive information of the speaker, leaving the information necessary for medical analysis purposes. In order for such privacy protective approaches to be developed, clear and systematic specifications of assumptions concerning medical settings and the needs of medical professionals are necessary. In this paper, we propose a Scenario of Use Scheme that incorporates an Attacker Model, which characterizes the adversary against whom the speaker's privacy must be defended, and a Protector Model, which specifies the defense. We discuss the connection of the scheme with previous work on speech privacy. Finally, we present a concrete example of a specified Scenario of Use and a set of experiments about protecting speaker data against gender inference attacks while maintaining utility for Parkinson's detection.
description: Accepted and published at SPSC Symposium 2024 4th Symposium on Security and Privacy in Speech Communication. Interspeech 2024
Deposit insurance in general equilibrium
Creators: name: Britz, Volker
name: Gersbach, Hans
name: Haller, Hans
Publisher: name: ETH Zurich
Year: 2016
Subjects: Financial intermediation
Deposit insurance
Capital structure
General equilibrium
Reinsurance
info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/330
Economics

description: Economics Working Paper Series, 16/258
Ambipolar-Diffusion Timescale, Star-Formation Timescale, and the Ages of Molecular Clouds: Is There a Discrepancy?
Creators: name: Tassis, Konstantinos
name: Mouschovias, Telemachos Ch.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We re-examine critically the estimates of the duration of different phases of star formation and the lifetimes of molecular clouds, based on the ages of T-Tauri stars, age spreads of stars in clusters, and statistics of pre-stellar cores. We show that all available observational data are consistent with lifetimes of molecular clouds comparable to 10 Myr, as well as with the predictions of the theory of self-initiated, ambipolar-diffusion--controlled star formation. We conclude that there exists no observational support for either "young" molecular clouds or "rapid" star formation.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal. 5 pages, 4 figures, uses emulateapj.cls
Performance and productivity changes in microfinance banks in South-West Nigeria
Creators: name: Olasupo, Musa A.
name: Afolami, Caroline A.
name: Shittu, Adebayo M.
name: Agboola, A.A.A.
name: Olasupo, Musa A.
name: Afolami, Caroline A.
name: Shittu, Adebayo M.
name: Agboola, A.A.A.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Agricultural Finance
subject: Productivity Analysis
subject: Microfinance banks
subject: performance
subject: Malmquist productivity index
subject: productivity changes

description: The Nigerian Microfinance sub-sector is yet to attain the desired level of global best practice. This paper thus investigated the performance and productivity changes of MFBs in South-West Nigeria, from 2006 to 2010, having had the Microfinance Policy launched in 2004. From the use of relevant accounting ratios, the study revealed that only 16% of the sampled MFBs met the recommended maximum PAR value of 5% in 2006. It was also revealed that 31% of the sampled MFBs reported a debt/equity ratio above the recommended value of 2 in 2006, while 32% had gearing of over 2 in 2010. The Malmquist productivity index revealed that the MFBs experienced fluctuating performances in their productivity changes, with pure technical efficiency improvements in 2007 and 2009. Overall, the performance and productivity changes experienced by the MFBs depicted a sub-sector with huge potentials and hence require nurturing to achieve its goals.
Global governance of biofuels: a case for public-private governance?
Creators: name: Mukhtarov, Farhad
name: Osseweijer, Patricia
name: Pierce, Robin
name: Mukhtarov, Farhad
name: Osseweijer, Patricia
name: Pierce, Robin
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Private governance
subject: biofuels
subject: partnerships
subject: legitimacy

description: With this paper, we examine the current state of global governance of biofuels and assess the potential regulatory and non-regulatory mechanisms for such governance. We ask two questions: a) what are the current efforts and initiatives towards the global governance of biofuels; and b) which form of global governance is more likely to emerge in the field of bioenergy. We come to the conclusion that institution building through private governance and non-state actor partnerships can offer a viable and effective means of governance. However, the primacy of partnerships and networks in global governance also means a number of pitfalls to avoid, especially with regard to legitimacy and inclusion. Drawing lessons from the fields of forest and marine policy, we close with a number of policy recommendations for better private initiatives and partnerships for global governance of biofuels.
Structure Learning in Inverse Ising Problems Using $\ell_2$-Regularized Linear Estimator
Creators: name: Meng, Xiangming
name: Obuchi, Tomoyuki
name: Kabashima, Yoshiyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Machine Learning (stat.ML)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The inference performance of the pseudolikelihood method is discussed in the framework of the inverse Ising problem when the $\ell_2$-regularized (ridge) linear regression is adopted. This setup is introduced for theoretically investigating the situation where the data generation model is different from the inference one, namely the model mismatch situation. In the teacher-student scenario under the assumption that the teacher couplings are sparse, the analysis is conducted using the replica and cavity methods, with a special focus on whether the presence/absence of teacher couplings is correctly inferred or not. The result indicates that despite the model mismatch, one can perfectly identify the network structure using naive linear regression without regularization when the number of spins $N$ is smaller than the dataset size $M$, in the thermodynamic limit $N\to \infty$. Further, to access the underdetermined region $M < N$, we examine the effect of the $\ell_2$ regularization, and find that biases appear in all the coupling estimates, preventing the perfect identification of the network structure. We, however, find that the biases are shown to decay exponentially fast as the distance from the center spin chosen in the pseudolikelihood method grows. Based on this finding, we propose a two-stage estimator: In the first stage, the ridge regression is used and the estimates are pruned by a relatively small threshold; in the second stage the naive linear regression is conducted only on the remaining couplings, and the resultant estimates are again pruned by another relatively large threshold. This estimator with the appropriate regularization coefficient and thresholds is shown to achieve the perfect identification of the network structure even in $0
description: 35 pages, 8 figures
Spectroscopic Properties of the z=4.5 Lyman-alpha Emitters
Creators: name: Dawson, Steve
name: Rhoads, James E.
name: Malhotra, Sangeeta
name: Stern, Daniel
name: Dey, Arjun
name: Spinrad, Hyron
name: Jannuzi, Buell T.
name: Wang, JunXian
name: Landes, Emily
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Keck/LRIS optical spectra of 17 Lya-emitting galaxies and one Lyman break galaxy at z=4.5 discovered in the Large Area Lyman Alpha (LALA) survey. The survey has identified a sample of ~350 candidate Lya-emitting galaxies at z=4.5 in a search volume of 1.5 x 10^6 comoving Mpc^3. We targeted 25 candidates for spectroscopy; hence, the 18 confirmations presented herein suggest a selection reliability of 72%. The large equivalent widths (median W(rest)~80 A) but narrow physical widths (v < 500 km/s) of the Lya emission lines, along with the lack of accompanying high-ionization state emission lines, suggest that these galaxies are young systems powered by star formation rather than by AGN activity. Theoretical models of galaxy formation in the primordial Universe suggest that a small fraction of Lya-emitting galaxies at z=4.5 may still be nascent, metal-free objects. Indeed, we find with 90% confidence that 3 to 5 of the confirmed sources show W(rest) > 240 A, exceeding the maximum Lya equivalent width predicted for normal stellar populations. Nonetheless, we find no evidence for HeII 1640 emission in either individual or composite spectra, indicating that though these galaxies are young, they are not truly primitive, Population III objects.
description: 12 pages, Accepted to ApJ